On Sun, 9 Nov 2025 16:40:17 +0000
ael via Dng <dng@???> wrote:
> My university offers a vpn service using the Cisco Secure Client
> https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/security/anyconnect-secure-mobility-client/series.html
>
> I installed it recently and could not get it to work on devuan testing.
> The installation script silently failed.
>
> I have only just dicovered an installation log file:
>
> # tail cisco-secure-client-linux64-5.1.12.146-core-vpn-webdeploy-k9-16442805112025.log
> Installing /tmp/vpn.b3C17n/vpn/vpndownloader-cli
> Installing /tmp/vpn.b3C17n/vpn/libacdownloader.so
> Installing /tmp/vpn.b3C17n/vpn/acinstallhelper
> Installing /tmp/vpn.b3C17n/vpn/OpenSource.html
> Installing /tmp/vpn.b3C17n/vpn/AnyConnectProfile.xsd
> Installing /tmp/vpn.b3C17n/vpn/AnyConnectLocalPolicy.xsd
> Error: systemd required. <=================
> rm -rf /tmp/vpn.b3C17n
> Done!
> Exiting now.
>
> So that seems to be the problem. The university "IT services" was dumbed
> down some years ago, and now seems to be mainly an MS slave, although
> they do offer some linux support. I doubt that I will find anyone who
> will even understands the significance of requiring systemd.
>
> I am horrified at the prospect of having to give up devuan. Does anyone
> here have any insight here. or even better some sort of workaround?
>
> ael
>
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Cisco Secure Client Support for Linux
Linux Requirements
Administrator privileges are required for installation
64-bit processor
100 MB hard disk space
tun support in Linux Kernel
libnss3, only if you are using the NSS Certificate Store
libstdc++ 6.0.19 (GLIBCXX_3.4.19) or later
iptables 1.4.21 or later
NetworkManager 1.0.6 or later
zlib - to support SSL deflate compression
glib 2.36 and later
polkit 0.105 or later, with pkexec (if provided as a separate package; only needed for ISE Posture deployment)
gtk 3.8 or later
==> systemd
webkitgtk+ 2.10 or later, required only if you are using the Cisco Secure Client embedded browser app
libnm (libnm.so or libnm-glib.so), required only if you are using Network Visibility Module
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Re: [DNG] Error: systemd required.
