Hi Adrian,
On 09.11.25 17:40, ael via 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.
>
Had you ever tried to use the opensource package: vpnc instead.
# apt-get install vpnc
should be your friend,
I used it in the past at several Linux distros when customer requested access
only via Cisco (PIX).
> 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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Regards,
Thomas
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