w.r.t. Ubuntu, you may want to “push” for  
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1873514> 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1873514.

Nevertheless I´d love to see a version of Guacamole that pulls the FreeRDP 
nightly build (and depending on need also other important libs) into a 
container.

Best Regards,

Joachim

 

Von: Robert Hardy <rha...@webcon.ca> 
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 21. Mai 2020 23:32
An: user@guacamole.apache.org
Betreff: Re: Soon any guackamole package for debian?

 

Working with Debian is a nut I've yet to crack. I haven't got further than my 
own PPAs.
I've tried before but it seems a lot more complicated than it needs to be.
When I hear about a year long process to become a Debian developer and the need 
for mentoring I tend to glaze over...
I'll have to try at some point but my time is expensive and I don't have a lot 
of time for games, especially when it's pro bono...

You didn't read my message. The existing packages of freerdp2 inside Ubuntu are 
ancient pre-release development git snapshots from February 2019.
There have been major changes to fix all sorts of problems. There are 2663 
closed issues on github. 
It's hard to map exactly how many came after that snapshot in February 2019 
with the UI in front of me but it's a lot of them.
It also includes fixes to address significant 14 security vulnerabilities.

It is not recommended to run guacamole against an ancient snapshot release like 
that. Frankly it won't work properly and will be insecure.
A lot of things didn't work for me until I recompiled against a specific 
freerdp2 daily from the date of release of the stable release.
It's an ugly work around but it worked for now.

Upgrading from Ubuntu 18.04 to the stable 20.04 release requires a mysql 
database upgrade from 5.7 to 8.0.
Guacamole 1.1.0 stopped working after I upgraded my OS. Not at all surprising 
since Guacamole 1.1.0 was installed completely un-packaged.
Basically it was unable to connect to the upgraded database.

Digging around in the guacamole bug reports, I believe it is because it needs 
some support for a newer database connector that will work with 1.2.0 once it 
is released. Obviously 1.2.0 released isn't yet available so I'm stuck in a 
holding pattern in terms of being able to upgrade.

- Rob

On 2020-05-21 3:40 p.m., Mike Jumper wrote:

On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 12:30 PM Robert Hardy <rha...@webcon.ca 
<mailto:rha...@webcon.ca> > wrote:

Currently the extreme lack of packaging for both guacamole and freerdp2 is 
really holding use of both project back.

 

If you would like to work with Debian to produce packages of Guacamole, I'm 
sure they would welcome the assistance.

 

Currently there seem to be two blocking issues:
1. Due to database changes, 1.2.0 of guacamole is needed in order to be able to 
upgrade to the current stable of release of 20.04 Ubuntu. That isn't available.

 

What database changes are you referring to?

 

2. The build dependency of freerdp2 release is not available.

 

Isn't it? https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/freerdp2-dev

 

- Mike

 

 

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