No more AnyConnect compatible vpn transport in Ubuntu 16.04?
Solution 1
I had same problem. use package in this page (or build it if you don't trust) http://tomtomtom.org/networkmanager-openconnect/
It works for me
On Ubuntu 16.04 the network-manager-openconnect and network-manager-openconnect-gnome plugins are not usable because they are to old to use with the current version of network-manager.
This is the english version of this guide from a german ubuntu support forum.
Unofficial built packages are available here:
http://tomtomtom.org/networkmanager-openconnect_1.1.93-1_i386.deb
http://tomtomtom.org/networkmanager-openconnect_1.1.93-1_amd64.deb
NOTE: You won´t get any security updates for this! It is just a workaround until the packages will have been fixed in the official repository!
Using VPN is a security feature - so it is better to build the package manually from source because you don´t know what I put into the packages. :-P
At first remove the unusable packages
sudo apt-get purge network-manager-openconnect network-manager-openconnect-gnome
You will need the build-dependencies.
sudo apt-get build-dep network-manager-openconnect
(NOTE: For this the 'deb-src'-Sources in /etc/apt/sources.list must be active.)
You can do this with sed e.g.
sudo sed -i s/#deb-src/deb-src/g /etc/apt/sources.list
the new dependency for the new version.
sudo apt-get install libnm-dev
and the sourcecode from GNOME project.
wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/NetworkManager-openconnect/1.1/NetworkManager-openconnect-1.1.93.tar.xz
Unpack the tarball
tar -xf NetworkManager-openconnect-1.1.93.tar.xz
change to the unpacked directory
cd NetworkManager-openconnect-1.1.93
and run the configure script.
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --libexecdir=/usr/lib/NetworkManager/ --enable-more-warnings=yes --disable-static
start compiling .
make
and install manually
sudo make install
install the dependency for use the software
sudo apt-get install openconnect
or build a package with checkinstall
sudo checkinstall
If you do so enter this:
networkmanager-openconnect
as package name
adduser, libc6, libdbus-glib-1-2, libglib2.0-0, libnm-glib-vpn1, libnm-util2, network-manager, openconnect
as requirementsand
network-manager-openconnect, network-manager-openconnect-gnome
as conflicts.
If you get errormessages by installing the package try
sudo apt-get -f install
to resolve unmet dependencies.
To use the software it is necessary to add a systemuser for this
sudo adduser --system --quiet --home /var/lib/NetworkManager --no-create-home --gecos "NetworkManager OpenConnect plugin" --group nm-openconnect}
At last restart the system.
Solution 2
I am having the same problem on fresh install of Ubuntu 16.04. You can however connect via terminal :
sudo openconnect https://<remote.host.here>
after that you should be prompted for user name and password.
Solution 3
There seems to be an official fix in xenial-proposed. If you enable pre-release updates and then do:
sudo apt install network-manager-openconnect network-manager-openconnect-gnome
it will start working. Well, it worked for me at least :)
Solution 4
I think the issue appears to be that the openconnect plugin is missing a library that network manager now requires.
If I examine the files in /etc/NetworkManager/VPN I see that all of the plugins except openconnect have a section that looks like the following:
[libnm]
plugin=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/NetworkManager/libnm-vpn-plugin-vpnc.so
network-manager-openconnect-gnome does not appear to provide a similar library and nor does any package in the ubuntu repository. I think this libnm library is some new requirement of NetworkManager and the version of openconnect in ubuntu doesn't support it yet.
Since I upgraded to 16.04 from 15.10 I still have my VPN connection defined. I can select and login from the NM GUI. However I cannot edit the connection via the GUI nor can I add a new VPN connection using openconnect.
Solution 5
To supplement Morteza Pourkazemi's answer, the answer works for me, but I need to install the following packages which are required by the configure
command.
sudo apt-get install intltool libxml2-dev libgtk-3-dev libsecret-1-dev libopenconnect-dev network-manager-dev libnm-util-dev libnm-glib-dev libnm-glib-vpn-dev
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Darko Miletic
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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Darko Miletic over 1 year
Following my previous experiences with setting up Cisco AnyConnect VPN connections on Ubuntu 14.04 I tried the same approach here by installing packages:
sudo apt-get install -y network-manager-openconnect-gnome network-manager-openconnect network-manager-vpnc network-manager-vpnc-gnome vpnc vpnc-scripts
Even after this an option to create Anyconnect compatible VPN connection does not appear.
Ubuntu 16.04 64bit, stock.
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unhammer over 6 yearsNote: If anyone thinks they can get by with just
network-manager-openconnect
and notnetwork-manager-openconnect-gnome
because they're not running GNOME, no: you need the-gnome
package, because it provides the actual/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/NetworkManager/libnm-vpn-plugin-openconnect.so
file referred to by the files installed bynetwork-manager-openconnect
:(
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Darko Miletic about 8 yearsThanks, but I really need the GUI here. Until that is fixed no Ubuntu 16.04 for me...
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Darko Miletic about 8 yearsI am aware of that option but it is not what I want. I want full GUI working without that I can stick with 14.04.
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rm-vanda about 8 yearsWell, in case you or anyone out there needs an "get me connected immediately" solution. Looks like I'll be rolling back too -_-
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John about 8 yearsYou misspelled "secret" in "libseceret-1-dev".
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Maura almost 8 yearsI appreciated the tip! GUI would be nice, but none of the proposed solutions have worked for me. So until the bug is fixed, I at least can have a handy connection script ready.
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Pabru almost 8 yearsNot working for me :(. May try this process again later.
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Eric Seppanen almost 8 yearsWhen this happened to me it was because I had installed the "network-manager-vpnc" package, but forgot to also install "network-manager-vpnc-gnome".
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L42 almost 8 yearsWorked for me on Ubuntu 16.04, after trying every possible solution google could provide.
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THE JOATMON about 7 yearspardon my ignorance, but I'm running a non-gui version of Ubuntu Server 16. If I run this command it just says "Established" and I don't get a prompt back. How can I connect "in the background"?
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bart about 7 years@Scott try "sudo openconnect <host> -u <username> -p <password> -b" see "man openconnect" for more options.
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user2413 about 7 yearshow do you use this?
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jerome over 6 yearsYep, this is what I needed to get the pulse secure compatibility working, and for the UI to work with the Ubuntu 17 network settings.
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Routhinator about 6 yearsThis is the fix for this issue on 17.10 as well. Need the *-gnome package.
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jerome over 4 yearsThis is still all I need for Ubuntu 19.10 as well.