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Ubuntu Citrix VDA Install

Yesterday I tried to install VDA on an Ubuntu VM....here's how it went... I strongly recommend not "going it alone" and use the scripts provided by Citrix as these will normally work. Citrix annoyingly call this "Easy Install" which might offend some stalwart IT admins but please swallow your pride these scripts do EVERYTHING for you if your IT environment is not bonkers....like mine is. I needed some tweaks as we have a UPN which differs from our domain so our user accounts have a UPN to blogger@domain.com but reside in a domain called my.name.net....yes yes yes as I said bonkers. Once I found this issue things went pretty smoothly. Here's my recipe dragged straight from Citrix documents https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/linux-virtual-delivery-agent/current-release/installation-overview/easy-install.html Make sure you are really install Ubuntu 18.04 and patch it to the gunnels - install vmware tools etc... Sort out the /etc/hosts to include one