Guacamole with MySQL on Ubuntu

GITHUB HERE

NOTE: The GitHub version supports installation on multiple versions of Ubuntu and Debian. The GitHub version is also updated whenever a new Guacamole version is released. This guide is a bit outdated and is only indented to walk you through the basics of installation. I do not intend to continue updating this guide…

If you would like you can download the “fully scripted” and updated version of this and execute it. To do so:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MysticRyuujin/guac-install/master/guac-install.sh chmod +x guac-install.sh ./guac-install.sh

Additional Credits to Emilio and Alex for the RDP fix(s) in comments section.

DOCKER VERSION HERE

UPGRADE INSTRUCTIONS FROM 0.9.x HERE

The following will install Guacamole 0.9.14, Tomcat 7, and MySQL on Ubuntu 16.04 for you. All you have to do is pick a MySQL Root Password and guacamole_user password. (two variables at the top of the script).

NOTE: Ubuntu 17+ uses gcc-7 by default and 0.9.14 does not compile with gcc-7 – the workaround is to install gcc-6 via apt-get then prefix the configure and make commands with CC="gcc-6" E.G. CC="gcc-6" ./configure --with-init-dir=/etc/init.d

#!/bin/bash # WORKING ON UBUNTU 16.04 WITH GUAC 0.9.14 AND TOMCAT7 # Set these passwords! mysqlrootpassword="" guacdbuserpassword = "" # Version numbers of Guacamole and MySQL Connector/J to download GUACVERSION="0.9.14" MCJVERSION="5.1.45" # Tomcat Version TOMCAT="tomcat7" # Set MySQL root password as defined above for apt installer debconf-set-selections <<< "mysql-server mysql-server/root_password password $mysqlrootpassword" debconf-set-selections <<< "mysql-server mysql-server/root_password_again password $mysqlrootpassword" #Install Stuff apt-get -y install build-essential libcairo2-dev libjpeg-turbo8-dev libpng12-dev libossp-uuid-dev libavcodec-dev libavutil-dev libswscale-dev libfreerdp-dev libpango1.0-dev libssh2-1-dev libtelnet-dev libvncserver-dev libpulse-dev libssl-dev libvorbis-dev libwebp-dev mysql-server mysql-client mysql-common mysql-utilities ${TOMCAT} freerdp-x11 ghostscript wget dpkg-dev # Set SERVER to be the preferred download server from the Apache CDN SERVER="http://apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi?action=download&filename=guacamole/${GUACVERSION}" # Download Guacamole Server wget -O guacamole-server-${GUACVERSION}.tar.gz ${SERVER}/source/guacamole-server-${GUACVERSION}.tar.gz # Download Guacamole Client wget -O guacamole-${GUACVERSION}.war ${SERVER}/binary/guacamole-${GUACVERSION}.war # Download Guacamole authentication extensions wget -O guacamole-auth-jdbc-${GUACVERSION}.tar.gz ${SERVER}/binary/guacamole-auth-jdbc-${GUACVERSION}.tar.gz # Download MySQL Connector-J wget -O mysql-connector-java-${MCJVERSION}.tar.gz https://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/Connector-J/mysql-connector-java-${MCJVERSION}.tar.gz # Extract Guacamole files tar -xzf guacamole-server-${GUACVERSION}.tar.gz tar -xzf guacamole-auth-jdbc-${GUACVERSION}.tar.gz tar -xzf mysql-connector-java-${MCJVERSION}.tar.gz # MAKE DIRECTORIES mkdir -p /etc/guacamole/lib mkdir /etc/guacamole/extensions # Install GUACD cd guacamole-server-${GUACVERSION} ./configure --with-init-dir=/etc/init.d make make install ldconfig systemctl enable guacd cd .. # Get build-folder BUILD_FOLDER=$(dpkg-architecture -qDEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE) # Move files to correct locations mv guacamole-${GUACVERSION}.war /etc/guacamole/guacamole.war ln -s /etc/guacamole/guacamole.war /var/lib/${TOMCAT}/webapps/ ln -s /usr/local/lib/freerdp/guac*.so /usr/lib/${BUILD_FOLDER}/freerdp/ cp mysql-connector-java-${MCJVERSION}/mysql-connector-java-${MCJVERSION}-bin.jar /etc/guacamole/lib/ cp guacamole-auth-jdbc-${GUACVERSION}/mysql/guacamole-auth-jdbc-mysql-${GUACVERSION}.jar /etc/guacamole/extensions/ # Configure guacamole.properties echo "mysql-hostname: localhost" >> /etc/guacamole/guacamole.properties # Set MySQL settings in guacamole properties file echo "mysql-port: 3306" >> /etc/guacamole/guacamole.properties echo "mysql-database: guacamole_db" >> /etc/guacamole/guacamole.properties echo "mysql-username: guacamole_user" >> /etc/guacamole/guacamole.properties echo "mysql-password: $guacdbuserpassword" >> /etc/guacamole/guacamole.properties # Restart Tomcat Service service ${TOMCAT} restart # Create guacamole_db and grant guacamole_user permissions to it # # SQL code SQLCODE=" create database guacamole_db; create user 'guacamole_user'@'localhost' identified by "$guacdbuserpassword"; GRANT SELECT,INSERT,UPDATE,DELETE ON guacamole_db.* TO 'guacamole_user'@'localhost'; flush privileges;" # Execute SQL code echo $SQLCODE | mysql -u root -p$mysqlrootpassword # Add Guacamole schema to newly created database cat guacamole-auth-jdbc-${GUACVERSION}/mysql/schema/*.sql | mysql -u root -p$mysqlrootpassword guacamole_db # Ensure guacd is started service guacd start # Cleanup rm -rf guacamole-* rm -rf mysql-connector-java-${MCJVERSION}* echo -e "Installation Completenhttp://localhost:8080/guacamole/nDefault login guacadmin:guacadminnBe sure to change the password."

I recommend that you restart now to make sure everything sticks and works after reboot.