Installing the Amazon DCV Connection Gateway - Amazon DCV Connection Gateway
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Installing the Amazon DCV Connection Gateway

This section describes how to install the latest version of the Amazon DCV Connection Gateway on a Linux host. You can use multiple hosts to improve scalability and performance. For more information, see Scaling the Amazon DCV Connection Gateway.

Note

The Amazon DCV Connection Gateway is available for the following Linux distributions and architectures:

  • Amazon Linux 2 (64-bit x86 and 64-bit ARM)

  • RHEL 8.x and Rocky Linux 8.x (64-bit x86 and 64-bit ARM)

  • Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, and Ubuntu 24.04 (64-bit x86 and 64-bit ARM)

The following instructions are for installing the Connection Gateway on 64-bit x86 hosts. To install the Connection Gateway on 64-bit ARM hosts, for Amazon Linux, RHEL, and CentOS, replace x86_64 with aarch64, and for Ubuntu, replace amd64 with arm64.

To install the Connection Gateway on a Linux host

  1. The Amazon DCV Connection Gateway packages are digitally signed with a secure GPG signature. To allow the package manager to verify the package signature, you must import the Amazon DCV GPG key. Run the following command to import the Amazon DCV GPG key.

    • Amazon Linux 2, RHEL, CentOS, and SUSE Linux Enterprise

      $ sudo rpm --import https://d1uj6qtbmh3dt5.cloudfront.net/NICE-GPG-KEY

    • Ubuntu

      $ wget https://d1uj6qtbmh3dt5.cloudfront.net/NICE-GPG-KEY
      $ gpg --import NICE-GPG-KEY

  2. Download the Amazon DCV Connection Gateway installation package for your distribution from the Amazon DCV download website.

  3. Install the package.

    • Amazon Linux 2

      $  sudo yum install -y nice-dcv-connection-gateway-2024.0.777-1.el7.x86_64.rpm

    • RHEL 8.x, and Rocky Linux 8.x

      $  sudo yum install -y nice-dcv-connection-gateway-2024.0.777-1.el8.x86_64.rpm

    • Ubuntu 20.04

      $  sudo apt install ./nice-dcv-connection-gateway_2024.0.777-1_amd64.ubuntu2004.deb

    • Ubuntu 22.04

      $  sudo apt install ./nice-dcv-connection-gateway_2024.0.777-1_amd64.ubuntu2204.deb

    • Ubuntu 24.04

      $  sudo apt install ./nice-dcv-connection-gateway_2024.0.777-1_amd64.ubuntu2404.deb