Linux Question - Ancient Thin Clients

[michael_22]

I've got a heap of ancient HP Thin Clients that I need to update Citrix receiver on.

 

HP stopped supporting these years ago, so my only option is to use the tarball files direct from Citrix. Issue I'm hitting is a dependency on "debconf" - I found a tarball for it at ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/tcdebian/pool/t5545/source/ - but I've no idea how to install it. I've untarred it, but beyond that I'm struggling.

Any Linux/Debian gurus out there able to help? The OS is so cut down that it doesn't have apt-get or many other common commands that I've been suggested elsewhere...

 

I'm restricted on the OS due to flash size limitations

 

Thanks

[jinnantonnixx]

Normally you extract the tarball to a directory

e.g.

tar -xvf debconf_1.5.24.tar.gz

This extracts the tarball to a directory of the same name, so change into the directory

cd debconf_1.5.24.tar.gz 

or whatever it's called it

then, if there is a config file,

config

then

make

then

sudo make install

and that should be it.

 

 

Building and Installing Software Packages for Linux: Using Make

Edited March 14, 2017 by jinnantonnixx

[Jamo]

That tar contains an already created Makefile. You should be able to untar and run make skipping the ./configure step ie:

tar xfvz debconf_1.5.24.tar.gz
cd debconf
make
sudo make install

[powdarrmonkey]

You need the matching debconf package (right version, architecture, etc) from packages.debian.org and use dpkg -i to overall it. (If you don't even have dpkg available, you're stuffed and that system is designed broken.)