Guacamole is a free and open-source remote desktop gateway that supports standard protocols like VNC, RDP, and SSH. It allows remote access to desktop machines over a web browser. This tutorial will guide you through the installation of Guacamole on MXLinux latest using the official Apache Guacamole website.
Before we can install Guacamole, we need to make sure that we have all the required packages and dependencies installed. Open the terminal and enter the following command:
sudo apt-get update
Next, install the following packages using the command below:
sudo apt-get install -y libcairo2-dev libpng-dev libossp-uuid-dev libvncserver-dev libssl-dev tomcat9 maven default-jdk
Next, we need to download the Guacamole server source code from the official Apache Guacamole website. You can download it by entering the following command:
wget https://downloads.apache.org/guacamole/1.3.0/source/guacamole-server-1.3.0.tar.gz
After the download is completed, extract the files using the following command:
tar -xzf guacamole-server-1.3.0.tar.gz
We need to build the Guacamole server from the source code that we have downloaded using the following command:
cd guacamole-server-1.3.0
./configure --with-init-dir=/etc/init.d
make
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig
Now that the Guacamole server is installed, we need to install the Guacamole client. Enter the following command to download the client:
wget https://downloads.apache.org/guacamole/1.3.0/binary/guacamole-1.3.0.war -O /var/lib/tomcat9/webapps/guacamole.war
After downloading the Guacamole client, we need to configure it using the following commands:
sudo mkdir /usr/share/tomcat9/.guacamole
sudo ln -s /etc/guacamole/guacamole.properties /usr/share/tomcat9/.guacamole/
sudo ln -s /etc/guacamole/user-mapping.xml /usr/share/tomcat9/.guacamole/
We are almost done! Now we need to start the Apache Tomcat service so that we can access the Guacamole web interface.
sudo systemctl start tomcat9
sudo systemctl enable tomcat9
Open your web browser and navigate to the following URL:
http://your-server-ip:8080/guacamole/
Here, replace "your-server-ip" with the IP address of your MXLinux server. You will be prompted to enter the default Guacamole credentials:
Username: guacadmin
Password: guacadmin
After successfully logging in, you can add remote desktop connections by clicking on the "Connections" tab and following the prompts.
Congratulations, you now have Guacamole installed and configured on your MXLinux Latest system, and you can use it to remotely connect to desktop machines.
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