Install VMware Horizon Client in Fedora 30

Steps to install VMware Horizon client for Linux

Blessy
1 min readMay 27, 2019
  1. Install the pre-requisite libraries
$ dnf install libpng12

2. Create the symbolic links for libudev.so.0 and libffi.so.5 libraries

$ ln -s /usr/lib64/libudev.so.1 /usr/lib64/libudev.so.0$ ln -s /usr/lib64/libffi.so.6 /usr/lib64/libffi.so.5

3. Download install bundle from

https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?downloadGroup=CART19FQ4_LIN64_410&productId=578&rPId=29503

4. Install the client using the bundle downloaded from VMware website

$ chmod 0744 VMware-Horizon-Client-4.10.0–11053294.x64.bundle$ ./VMware-Horizon-Client-4.10.0–11053294.x64.bundle

5. Launch the client

$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/vmware /usr/lib/vmware/view/bin/vmware-view

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Blessy

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