Fortigate Client v7 on OpenSuse

[RikusJansen]

Hi All

Can anyone at Fortigate please let us know when they will release an install package for OpenSuse and SLED

Also, I have tried everything I can think of to get Forticlient to work on OpenSuse Leap 15, but no luck. I have to connect to Company VPN using IPSec but now have to run a windows PC to provide Access to their network because for Some reason Fortigate thinks RedHat and Ubuntu is good enough,

Fortigate is an international product, they need to provide for all the mainstreams, including KDE as well.

Response on this will be greatly appreciated.

[AEK]

Hi Jansen

OpenSuse and SLES are rpm based just like Red Hat.

FortiClient VPN in RPM format is available on the below link.

https://www.fortinet.com/support/product-downloads#vpn

Hope it helps.

[RikusJansen]

I did. First I tried to install via Discover and I got an error "Dependency Failure". Then I used zypper and got the following errors
Problem: 1: nothing provides 'libXext' needed by the to be installed forticlient-7.4.0.1636-1.el7.x86_64
Solution 1: do not install forticlient-7.4.0.1636-1.el7.x86_64
Solution 2: break forticlient-7.4.0.1636-1.el7.x86_64 by ignoring some of its dependencies.

I checked and libXext6 is installed. This is on OpenSuse Leap 15.xx. So, what is the way forward?

[AEK]

This is a Linux related concern but I'll try to help within the limits of my knowledge.

If there is no libXext in the official repo then it may be a problem to run this FortiClient version. However you can still try the following workaround, I tried it in other situations and it worked, but there is no warranty that it will work for your case.

First, try to find where is the "libXext.so.6" file located.

Lets say you find it under /usr/lib/.

Then create a soft link named "libXext.so" inside the same folder, like that:

cd /usr/lib/
ln -s libXext.so.6 libXext.so

Then install FortiClient and ignore the warning if it appears again, then try run it and see if there is any issue.

Hope it helps.

[RikusJansen]

Thanks. The install worked. But now, for some reason the IPSEC connection doesn't work. tries connect and then closes. It works on Windows and Android no propblem

[AEK]

Which FortiClient version?

You need to export logs from FortiClient and also run debug on the remote FortiGate.

diag debug app ike -1
diag vpn ike log-filter name <phase1-name>
diag debug enable