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Guacamole

Apache Guacamole is a clientless remote desktop gateway. It supports standard protocols like VNC, RDP, and SSH.

We call it clientless because no plugins or client software are required. Thanks to HTML5, once Guacamole is installed on a server, all you need to access your desktops is a web browser.

Server

Requiere depedences

APT:DEB/Ubuntu

apt install libcairo2-dev libtool-bin libossp-uuid-dev

Optional depedences

  • APT:DEB/Ubuntu
apt install libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libavutil-dev libswscale-dev freerdp2-dev libpango1.0-dev libssh2-1-dev  libtelnet-dev libvncserver-dev libwebsockets-dev libpulse-dev libssl-dev libvorbis-dev libwebp-dev

Obtain code

  • APT:DEB/Ubuntu
apt install git

Donwload the guacamole server repository: 

git clone <git://github.com/apache/guacamole-server.git>

Build process

cd guacamole-server
autoreconf -fi

./configure --with-init-dir=/etc/init.d --enable-allow-freerdp-snapshots
make

Installation

make install
ldconfig

Guest agent

Requierement

  • APT:DEB/Ubuntu
apt install git maven
  • RPM:Fedora/Centos/Rhel:
yum install git maven

Donwload the guacamole client repository 

git clone <git://github.com/apache/guacamole-client.git>
mvn package

Source : https://kifarunix.com/install-apache-guacamole-on-ubuntu-21-04/

Server Installation

Update : 

apt update

Software needed : 

apt install build-essential libcairo2-dev libpng-dev libtool-bin libossp-uuid-dev libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libavutil-dev libswscale-dev freerdp2-dev libpango1.0-dev libssh2-1-dev libvncserver-dev libtelnet-dev libssl-dev libvorbis-dev libwebp-dev

Guacamole Server

Downlaod

cd /usr/src/
wget <https://downloads.apache.org/guacamole/1.3.0/source/guacamole-server-1.3.0.tar.gz>
tar xzvf guacamole-server-1.3.0.tar.gz

Configuration

For more configure options, run, ./configure --help

Verifying if anything is missing

cd guacamole-server-1.3.0
./configure --with-init-dir=/etc/init.d