I am having troubles installing forticlient VPN in my ubuntu 23.10. I have followed https://www.fortinet.com/support/product-downloads/linux but whatever the choice of version of forticlient I use, I always get the error that libgconf-2-4 (> 0) is needed but not available.
Any hint on how to solve this problem?
Jordi
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Try to download and install this library from older Ubuntu release or from Debian repo.
hi ,
you need to install old debian libraries.
i created a script to help the installation :
Regards
#!/bin/bash
# Downloading packages
wget http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gconf/gconf2_3.2.6-8_amd64.deb
wget http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gconf/libgconf-2-4_3.2.6-8_amd64.deb
wget http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gconf/gconf2-common_3.2.6-8_all.deb
wget http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gconf/gconf-service_3.2.6-8_amd64.deb
wget http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/pool/main/o/openldap/libldap-2.5-0_2.5.13%2bdfsg-5_amd64.deb
# Configuring the libgconf-2-4 package
sudo dpkg --configure -a
# Installing the libldap-2.5-0 package
sudo apt-get install libldap-2.5-0
# Installing the gconf packages
sudo dpkg -i gconf2_3.2.6-8_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i libgconf-2-4_3.2.6-8_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i gconf2-common_3.2.6-8_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i gconf-service_3.2.6-8_amd64.deb
# Resolving any potential dependency issues
sudo apt-get -f install
Try to download and install this library from older Ubuntu release or from Debian repo.
I have followed the instructions in this link https://2h3ph3rd.medium.com/how-to-install-libgconf-2-4-on-ubuntu-23-10-fec6bda8d5f5 and I got it working. Thanks a lot.
hi ,
you need to install old debian libraries.
i created a script to help the installation :
Regards
#!/bin/bash
# Downloading packages
wget http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gconf/gconf2_3.2.6-8_amd64.deb
wget http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gconf/libgconf-2-4_3.2.6-8_amd64.deb
wget http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gconf/gconf2-common_3.2.6-8_all.deb
wget http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gconf/gconf-service_3.2.6-8_amd64.deb
wget http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/pool/main/o/openldap/libldap-2.5-0_2.5.13%2bdfsg-5_amd64.deb
# Configuring the libgconf-2-4 package
sudo dpkg --configure -a
# Installing the libldap-2.5-0 package
sudo apt-get install libldap-2.5-0
# Installing the gconf packages
sudo dpkg -i gconf2_3.2.6-8_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i libgconf-2-4_3.2.6-8_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i gconf2-common_3.2.6-8_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i gconf-service_3.2.6-8_amd64.deb
# Resolving any potential dependency issues
sudo apt-get -f install
thanks a lot. It worked
Created on 04-26-2024 08:03 AM Edited on 04-26-2024 08:05 AM
An enterprise graded product should not use old libraries, potentially introducing security issues.
Is there an solution planned based using the latest versions of those libraries?
This doesn't work for ubuntu 24
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