Citrix Receiver on Linux

“Citrix is a service that enables the use of Windows applications from a variety of platforms without needing to install the application locally. The application’s computing and GPU needs are handled by EWS-hosted servers.”
— Engineering IT

If you go to the IT page for setting up Citrix, you will notice that a certain OS is missing… Linux for NOT EWS.

The following are instructions Patrick got from IT about how the EWS Linux boxes were set up. These were tested on *ubuntu systems, YMMV.

1. follow steps 1-3 of IT’s instructions for Mac (obviously the Linux program will look different).
2. At this point you will get an SSL error. Here starts the fun.
3. Open https://citrix.engr.illinois.edu/ in your web browser, and figure out how to download the Certificates.
   • In Chrome, this is achieved by opening Developer Tools and clicking on the Security tab, then “View Certificate”.
   • In Firefox (TODO)

There should be three certificates, e.g. as shown in the screenshot from Chrome:

Save these files however you like, but for the purposes of this tutorial we will do the following:

• citrix.engr.illinois.edu –> citrixengrillinoisedu.pem
• InCommon RSA Server CA –> citrixInCommonRSAServerCA.pem
• TokenUSERTrust RSA Certification Authority
  –> citrixUSERTrustRSACertificationAuthority.pem

• b3c7a5f0.0 -> citrixengrillinoisedu.pem
• b4261fc2.0 -> citrixInCommonRSAServerCA.pem
• fc5a8f99.0 -> citrixUSERTrustRSACertificationAuthority.pem