Developers Guide

VMware add-on installation
The overall VMware add-on installation includes the following tasks:
1. Download the VMware UI package and VMware Horizon Client for 64-bit Linux installer bundle. See, Download the VMware packages.
2. Convert the VMware Horizon Client installer bundle to the VMware bundle update Debian package. See, Convert the Bundle package
to Debian package.
3. Install the packages in the order VMware bundle update package > VMware UI package using any of the following methods:
• Install using Add-on Manager. See, Install the VMware Horizon Client package using add-on manager
• Install using INI parameter. See, Install the VMware Horizon Client package using INI parameters
• Install using Wyse Management Suite. See, Install the VMware Horizon Client package using Wyse Management Suite
Download the VMware packages
• Download the VMware Horizon Client for 64-bit Linux installer bundle file from www.vmware.com.
• Download the VMware UI package as follows:
1. Go to www.dell.com/support.
2. In the Enter a Service Tag, Serial Number, Service Request, Model, or Keyword, type the Service Tag or the model number
of your device, and press Enter or click Search.
3. On the product support page, click Drivers & downloads.
4. Select the operating system as ThinLinux from the drop-down menu.
5. From the list, locate VDI Clients Add-on Package for ThinLinux 2.x.
6. Click the download icon and extract the file.
The following are the VMware packages available from the extracted file:
Table 3. VMware packages
Package name Summary
vmware-viewclient-ui_5.0.0-00.02_amd64.deb
(VMware UI package)
Use this file as the Dell custom UI interface for VMware View
Client on ThinLinux 2.x.
vmware-bundle-update_1.0.0-00.03_amd64.deb Use this file as the wrapper package for updating the VMware
View Horizon Client bundle on ThinLinux 2.x.
Convert the Bundle package to Debian package
Prerequisites
If you are installing the package for the first time, use the vmware-bundle-update_1.0.0-00.03_amd64.deb package from
www.dell.com/support.
Steps
1. Log in to a Linux system or a Linux Virtual Machine (VM). For example, Ubuntu.
2. Open the terminal window. For example, press Alt+Ctrl+X if you are running Ubuntu.
3. Create a directory /tmp/vmware using the following command:
mkdir /tmp/vmware
4. Copy the Debian package that you have downloaded from Dell support site to the directory using the following command:
cp vmware-bundle-update_1.0.0-00.03_amd64.deb /tmp/vmware
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