[needs-packaging] Please upgrade to openmotif 2.3.xx

[Adrian Jadic]

I don't know if there is a reason for this but openmotif is at version 2.3.2 while we work with 2.2.x since Dapper.

I use Citrix Receiver and it requires at least 2.3.1 version of openmotif.

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt (benh-kernel)]

if you do so, please keep a package for 2.2.x since there's quite a few pieces of SW around that rely on it

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

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[Chad Waters (chad)]

Citrix clients are now requiring motif >= 2.3.1

http://www.citrix.com/English/ss/downloads/details.asp?downloadId=3323&productId=186&c1=sot2755

[Chad Waters (chad)]

Debian bug 494375

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=494375

[Chad Waters (chad)]

Package is orphaned in Debian.

[nacktmull (bernd-motzer)]

There is an easier workaround without downloading/installing anything.
It is true that Citrix ICA client is checking for libXm.so.4 included in OpenMotif 2.3.X, but from the software, it also works with libXm.so.3

Go to usr/lib and create a copy of the file libXm.so.3
Rename this copy to libXm.so.4
and ICA-Client in the latest version will run without problems.

Tested on (K)/(X)/Ubuntu 9.10 as well as 10.04

That's all.

BTW:
Ubuntu itself should not try to resolve this error by putting a fake libXm.so.4 in /usr/lib,
as this would not be proper.
Rather Citrix should change the client so that it also accepts libXm.so.3

[Alex Cockell (alcockell)]

Citrix's own support docs... http://hqextsrvsft01.citrix.com/article/CTX125285

Would it be possible to get Canonical and Citrix to talk?

[Alex Cockell (alcockell)]

For info - looks like Debian upstream have just accepted Openmotif 2.3.3-4 into Unstable. http://packages.debian.org/source/unstable/openmotif

Maybe a bug watch could be applied?

[Alex Cockell (alcockell)]

Looks like it's just made Debian Testing. http://packages.qa.debian.org/o/openmotif/news/20100926T163917Z.html

Any chance it could be evaluated for SRU into Lucid? Maybe along with talking to Citrix about getting their ICA client into the repos... or an installer stub into Universe/Multiverse as a stopgap?

So we end-users have a one-step action?

[Chad Waters (chad)]

This is resolved in Natty

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openmotif/2.3.3-5