VPN installation on Linux - dependency problem

oliver1 · ‎04-07-2022

Hi, I'm trying to install the Fortinet VPN client on Linux but it doesn't work.

The .deb package has a dependency on libappindicator1, which seems to have been deprecated quite a while ago and is thus impossible to install.

Are people actually using FortiClient VPN on Linux? How do you do it?

sw2090 · ‎04-07-2022

ok tested it on a test vm running Q4OS 4.8.

On that vm I have a running FortiClient 7.0.3 now.

I achieved that this way:

1. download debian buster libappindicator1 and libindicator7 debs from packages.debian.org.

1.2. download forticlient deb

2. install all three with sudo dpkg -i with all three deb as parameters or download them all into the same dir and do sudo dpkg -i *.deb

3. it will complain about some missing deps so execute a sudo apt-get -f install afterwards to install the missing packages and finish the installation of the packages from step 2

worked fine on my test vm here. I can now start FortiClient on it.

The link to buster libappindicator1 is in my posting above. The the dependency list of that lib contains a link to libindicator7.

Hope you get it running too!

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Sadullah · ‎06-19-2023

You guided me @sw2090 , I didn't have any idea of dependency packages in ubuntu 22.04.

I checked libappindicator1 in my ubuntu 22.04 and it has already installed then I checked libindicator7 but I couldn't find any package with this name in both debian and ubuntu packages. Flash light fired in my mind and begin to search a package in ubuntu 22.04 jammy package pages which contain a keyword "vpn" in its description.

Bingo!!!

Installed "libopenconnect5" package

sudo apt-get install libappindicator1 libopenconnect5

then I reinstalled forticlient ..deb file

sudo dpkg -i package-name.deb && sudo apt install -f

reboot PC and that works.

sw2090 · ‎04-07-2022

probably this will work in debian buster and various other distributions based on debian that don't natively provide libappindicator1 too.

the current Ubuntu and Lubuntu still provide libappindicator1 natively.

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