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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Hi ael,
Can you try using OpenConnect? It's the open-source alternative to
AnyConnect. If the current packages are too old, you could also try
using those automatically built with the Open Build Service.
Kind regards,
Marin
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Re: [DNG] Error: systemd required.
