Support for FortiClient VPN 7.4 for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

[marek7]

I was not able to install forticlient on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 

~/Downloads/vpn $ sudo dpkg -i forticlient_vpn_7.4.0.1636_amd64.deb
Selecting previously unselected package forticlient.
(Reading database ... 234015 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack forticlient_vpn_7.4.0.1636_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking forticlient (7.4.0.1636) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of forticlient:
forticlient depends on libappindicator1 (>> 0) | libayatana-appindicator1 (>> 0); however:
Package libappindicator1 is not installed.
Package libayatana-appindicator1 is not installed.

dpkg: error processing package forticlient (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
Processing triggers for mailcap (3.70+nmu1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.36.0-1.1ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.27-2build1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
forticlient

I found package "libayatana-indicator7_0.8.4-1+deb11u2_amd64.deb"

but I was not able to install it on Ubuntu 24.04.

Do you support FortiClient VPN 7.4 for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS?

[miciti]

According to https://www.fortinet.com/support/product-downloads/linux they are still on ubuntu 22.04 LTS

[peter20250000]

which isn't good enough as the Ubuntu 24.04 has been out for a good while.

[jeremy-mordkoff]

i found that openfortivpn works well on Ubuntu 24.04. It took a little extra work to get MFA to work. But I do prefer a command line client anyway 

[marceloudi]

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS:

# Download libappindicator1
wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/liba/libappindicator/libappindicator1_12.10.1+20.10.20200706.1-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb 

# Download dependency required by libappindicator1
wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/libd/libdbusmenu/libdbusmenu-gtk4_16.04.1+18.10.20180917-0ubuntu8_amd64.deb

# Install both packages
sudo apt install  ./libappindicator1_12.10.1+20.10.20200706.1-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb ./libdbusmenu-gtk4_16.04.1+18.10.20180917-0ubuntu8_amd64.deb 

# Install forticlient downloaded from https://www.fortinet.com/support/product-downloads
sudo apt install ./forticlient_vpn_7.4.0.1636_amd64.deb

[peter20250000]

Fortinet should support 24.04 out of the box

[rmartinsdesouza]

Work 100%

Thank you !

[peter20250000]

Looks like the forticlient_vpn_7.4.3.1736_amd64 release has fixed this .

[AEK]

You are right, according to FCT 7.4.3 release notes.

Product integration and support

The following table lists version 7.4.3 product integration and support information:

Operating systems

Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04 CentOS Stream 9 Red Hat 9 and later All supported with KDE or GNOME

Ref:  https://docs.fortinet.com/document/forticlient/7.4.3/linux-release-notes/136392/product-integration-...