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The package is now finally upgraded to the latest 2024.x release!

Thanks to @row's patch it not only supports the DCV, but also continues to support PCoIP.

If anyone has issues with the new release: I also published the old release under a new name here: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/amazon-workspaces-legacy-bin

Please still comment here if you have any issues with the new release & include your streaming protocol (DCV/PCoIP). Thanks!

Thank you very much @row.

That is awesome row!

@janek I believe I got the "new" Ubuntu Focal client working in an Arch package, and submitted a PR on GitHub. This worked for both PCOIP and DCV Workspaces in very limited testing (just one personal machine). Note that Focal (20.04) is going to hit its 5-year end-of-life in May 2025, so this particular package might have limited lifespan.

One minor quirk I see is that when disconnecting the DCV session, there's a warning about a session issue, but it otherwise seems functional. I have not used DCV extensively, yet.

Just noting that Amazon has announced an EOL for all 4.x versions in a couple of months (March 2025), so the current version will be out of support soon - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/workspaces/latest/adminguide/workspaces-eol.html

I took a pass at playing with the PKGBUILD for the newer versions, I think I'm running into the same lsb-release issues janek had mentioned. On the Ubuntu 20.04 "new" client (with both PCOIP+DCV support), the app crashes if /etc/lsb-release doesn't exist, and I didn't find an environment variable it would obey. Installing the Arch lsb-release package got it to run, but a PCOIP Workspace got an error that the system was not Ubuntu 20. Connecting to a WSP Workspace instantly disconnected. I tried the 22.04 client (WSP only), as well, and saw the same instant disconnect symptom for a WSP Workspace.

I didn't see an obvious error in the client logs, although there was a non-error part that showed dcvclient starting and a sub-process exiting a log line later. Running dcvclient directly from the install tree got a library error looking for libselinux.so.1, which I'm not clear is an actual issue or a red herring. I am also not clear if there's another factor (i.e. not having a recognized Ubuntu release in /etc/os-release) that could be messing with it.

Hello,

I just registered to post this comment.

I'm trying to get the new version of aws-workspace work in Nix, without luck.

You can find the thread of the progress at: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/344875

I'll follow the progress here if any, let's collaborate to fix this thing :)

Same, I use it daily too and will happily test and report.

@janek: I'm happy to test a new PKGBUILD based on WSP in advance - I use this daily so I'm looking to a working solution with minimal downtime due to dependencies missing.

It's been more than a year. The idea of splitting to two versions sounds good. Until that's done, this should be flagged as outdated, because that's what it is.

WSP is a newer protocol introduced by Amazon specifically for Amazon WorkSpaces. It is designed to be more adaptive to different network conditions and offer better performance under various circumstances.

@dbGIS & stilvoid: as explained earlier, I haven't found a way yet to get PCoIP to work on Arch with one of the more recent 2024.x releases. Thats why I haven't updated the package yet.
I think I will soon create a new package for the legacy, PCoIP compatible version 4.7.0 and update this package to the latest 2024.x release, which will support WSP but break PCoIP.

If someone found a way to support both WSP & PCoIP please let me know (the focal release does contain PCoIP support but I didn't find a way to get it to work on Arch Linux)

There is a new workspace client that supports WSP. The release targeting focal supports both PCoIP and WSP and is currently at version 2024.0.4707. The release targeting jammy supports WSP only and is currently at version 2024.0.4661.

4.7.0.4312 does seem to be the latest version published on the Workspaces website https://clients.amazonworkspaces.com/linux-install