> On 10 Nov 2025, at 05:45, Marin Ivanov <metala@???> wrote:
>
> 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
I can agree with this suggestion. Previously used openconnect for many years to connect to a Cisco anyconnect vpn.
https://www.infradead.org/openconnect/
It’s in the devuan package repositories.
apt-get install openconnect
There is also a network-manager plugin if you use that.
apt-get install network-manager-openconnect-gnome
Tom
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Re: [DNG] Error: systemd required.
