The Guacamole web application is written in Java, so we need to install a Java Servlet container like Apache Tomcat. Step 2: Install the Guacamole Web Application Guacd listens on 127.0.0.1:4822, as can be shown with the ss utility. sudo systemctl start guacdĮnable auto-start at boot time. Reload systemd, so it can find the guacd (Guacamole proxy daemon) service installed in /etc/init.d/ directory. Update the system’s cache of installed libraries. cd guacamole-server-1.4.0Ĭonfigure the build environment./configure -with-init-dir=/etc/init.d tar -xvf guacamole-server-1.4.0.tar.gzĬhange to the extracted directory. Sudo apt install build-essential libcairo2-dev libjpeg-turbo8-dev libpng-dev libtool-bin libossp-uuid-dev libvncserver-dev freerdp2-dev libssh2-1-dev libtelnet-dev libwebsockets-dev libpulse-dev libvorbis-dev libwebp-dev libssl-dev libpango1.0-dev libswscale-dev libavcodec-dev libavutil-dev libavformat-devĭownload the latest stable version of guacamole-server.

Log in to your Ubuntu 22.04/20.04 server and install dependency packages. Step 1: Build the Guacamole Server From Source It’s a proxy between the remote desktop and the client, so the remote desktop can be displayed and controlled in a web browser. Guacamole itself is not a remote desktop protocol.

Supports clipboard (copy and paste) and file transfer via SFTP.

Supports TOTP two-factor authentication.

Easily manage multiple remote desktop sessions.

Single Sign-on with CAS, OpenID Connect or SAML 2.0.

VNC sessions can be recorded graphically.

Supports standard protocols like VNC, RDP, SSH and Kubernetes.

No other software needs to be installed on the client-side.

It allows you to access your remote desktop from a web browser.

Guacamole is a free, open-source remote desktop gateway developed by the Apache software foundation.

This tutorial will be showing you how to set up Guacamole remote desktop on Ubuntu 22.04/20.04 server.

Ubuntu 20.04 vnc server