Comment 6 for bug 1268770

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Derek (bugs-m8y) wrote :

Oh... This is kind of important I guess... I'm using vmware-view-open-client because vmware-view-client is, for some reason, i386 only - perhaps that's due to being non-open source as the maintainer of this package noted.

vmware-view-open-client was as noted above, annoyingly, removed from trusty. Apparently an upstream debian thing. This is pretty bad for the keycard/vmware view setup in corp/gov world.

Now, vmware-view-client *is* still in existence but due to the i386 dependency, to get your keycard to work on current ubuntu LTS will require installing a ton of i386 libs (since you're probably all-64bit like most sane people).

Now unfortunately, I was not able to find opensc:i386 or libengine-pkcs11-openssl:i386 packages, so this was a total non-starter.

Luckily, the ubuntu dev that pulled it kindly pointed me to:
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/160769423/vmware-view-open-client_4.5.0-297975+dfsg-4ubuntu4_amd64.deb

Which works just fine.

So, for anyone wandering by Launchpad trying to figure out how to get your VMWare view to work with your keycard, as well as the fixes above to opensc and the symlink, you'll probably want to get this .deb too that was yanked from ubuntu :/