Amd64

In a previous post, I wrote about how to configure vmware-view-client 1.7 and 2.0 on Ubuntu 13.04. I went ahead and verified that vmware-view-client works just fine on Ubuntu 13.04 and 13.10 using the same steps as described in the original post. I’ve updated the steps there to also include version 2.1 which is now available. There is not anything different that has to be done to install 2.1 vs 2.0 but I figured I would mention that since it is available and does seem to work just fine. ...

Note: You can follow the same instructions for the Oracle Java 7 JRE. If you do, ignore the steps for javac. Previously, I have relied on following instructions from Alexander Holbreich’s blog on how to install the latest Oracle Java JDK on Debian Wheezy (amd64). There are a few steps that are a little outdated but overall, it works well. Since I find myself updating Java fairly often as newer versions are released, I figured that it would be worthwhile to write down the updated steps: ...

Recently, Remi commented about how to get vmware-view-client working on Ubuntu 13.04, asking if I had a repackaged version for amd64. Ubuntu can take advantage of multiarch which makes the install very similar to how it is done on Debian wheezy amd64. Of course when I went to install it, I immediately ran into a few problems. Luckily there is a solution. Here are all of the steps that I took to get it installed and working: ...

So since wheezy has finally been released as the new ‘stable’ version of Debian, I went ahead and revisited vmware-view-client on wheezy. I ran into a number of problems Basically, the solution is to use multi-arch and libssl0.9.8 from Ubuntu (i386). You will want the i386 packages even if you are using the amd64 build of Debian wheezy. Please note that if you have anything that relies on the Debian squeeze version of libssl0.9.8, installing the Ubuntu version of libssl0.9.8 as seen below will break those packages and apt will want to remove them! If you get an error in apt asking to remove a number of packages or needing to run apt-get install -f to fix broken dependencies, this is the case. Removing the Ubuntu version of libssl0.9.8 and reinstalling libssl0.9.8 from squeeze will resolve that. ...