VMware Horizon Client not working in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Which version of VMware horizon client works in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS?

I have tried latest version 5.4.1 and getting the following message,

sudo ./VMware-Horizon-Client-5.4.1-15988340.x64.bundle
[sudo] password for balu:
Extracting VMware Installer...done.
Unable to load gtk: No module named gtk, falling back to console.
You must accept the VMware Horizon Client End User License Agreement
to continue. Press Enter to proceed.

after installing VMware horizon client, I have tried to add server and hit enter after that VMWare horizon client window is closing. There after i didn't get any response.

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4 Answers

For me, installing intel-media-driver-non-free was the solution (at least on ubuntu 20.10). Disabling h.264 in the VMware Blast options also worked, but resulted in terrible image quality.

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The Ubuntu 20.04 contains libffi.so.7. The missing libffi.so.6 fails launching the vmware client.

I made a symlink to solve this issue:

/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu $ ln -s libffi.so.7 libffi.so.6

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You need to have python2 for VMware horizon client to work:

sudo apt install python

Reinstall VMware horizon client if it is still not working.

1. Visit this VMware website link, and select the download button:

2. The file to download is: VMware-Horizon-Client-2006-8.0.0-16522670.x64.bundle. Open the terminal, change directories with cd to the folder where the file was downloaded (e.g. cd /home/$USER/Download and run:

   sudo sh ./VMware-Horizon-Client-x.x.x-yyyyyyy.arch.bundle

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