VMware View Linux client install on RHEL 5

by Eddy on

VMware View Linux client installation on Linux distributions requires several package dependencies if you are compiling the source code. You can download the VMware view Linux client source tarball from google code and find more information on VMware View Linux client Wiki. I have installed the VMware View client on RHEL 5 using the RPM Package. On RHEL 5 Linux installing the VMware View Linux client requires the rdesktop package, if you don’t have rdesktop package installed on Red Hat enterprise Linux then you will get error on installing rdesktop package.

1. You can install rdesktop package on RHEL 5 using yum command to resolve the dependencies :

[root@google-labs tmp]# yum install rdesktop
Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
–> Running transaction check
—> Package rdesktop.i386 0:1.4.1-6 set to be updated
–> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved
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Package Arch Version Repository Size
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Installing:
rdesktop i386 1.4.1-6 rhel-i386-server-5 117 k

Transaction Summary
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Install 1 Package(s)
Update 0 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)

Total download size: 117 k
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
rdesktop-1.4.1-6.i386.rpm
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Installing : rdesktop [1/1]

Installed: rdesktop.i386 0:1.4.1-6
Complete!

2. Install the VMware View Linux client

[root@google-labs tmp]# rpm -ivh VMware-view-open-client-2.1.1-144835.i386.rpm
Preparing… ########################################### [100%]
1:VMware-view-open-client########################################### [100%]

3. Once VMware Linux client is installed , run the VMware view command :