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 Linux distributions and architectures listed in System requirements.

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.

   The RPM and deb packages are packaged into a .tgz archive. Make sure that you download the correct archive for your operating system.

   • Amazon Linux 2

     $ wget https://d1uj6qtbmh3dt5.cloudfront.net/2024.0/Servers/nice-dcv-2024.0-18131-ubuntu2004-x86_64.tgz

   • RHEL 8.x, and Rocky Linux 8.x

     $ wget https://d1uj6qtbmh3dt5.cloudfront.net/2024.0/Servers/nice-dcv-2024.0-18131-ubuntu2004-x86_64.tgz

   • Ubuntu 20.04 (64-bit x86)

     $ wget https://d1uj6qtbmh3dt5.cloudfront.net/2024.0/Servers/nice-dcv-2024.0-18131-ubuntu2004-x86_64.tgz

   • Ubuntu 22.04 (64-bit x86)

     $ wget https://d1uj6qtbmh3dt5.cloudfront.net/2024.0/Servers/nice-dcv-2024.0-18131-ubuntu2204-x86_64.tgz

   • Ubuntu 22.04 (64-bit ARM)

     $ wget https://d1uj6qtbmh3dt5.cloudfront.net/2024.0/Servers/nice-dcv-2024.0-18131-ubuntu2204-aarch64.tgz

   • Ubuntu 24.04 (64-bit x86)

     $ wget https://d1uj6qtbmh3dt5.cloudfront.net/2024.0/Servers/nice-dcv-2024.0-18131-ubuntu2404-aarch64.tgz

   • Ubuntu 24.04 (64-bit ARM)

     $ wget https://d1uj6qtbmh3dt5.cloudfront.net/2024.0/Servers/nice-dcv-2024.0-18131-ubuntu2404-aarch64.tgz