275 thoughts on “Forticlient – SSLVPN .deb packages”

1. Joander Vieira Cândido 30/05/2015 at 01:30

   Obrigado amigo ! from Brazil !

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2. sanjay 29/05/2015 at 11:54

   When installing on 12.04 i get dependency error:
   “Dependency not satisfiable: libpango-1.0.0”

   On 12.04, the package name is libpango1.0.0 not libpango-1.0.0

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   1. Joswin 06/01/2016 at 09:03

      Any idea how to fix this issue?

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      1. Alvin Estrada 27/01/2016 at 03:25

         sudo apt-get install -f

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      2. Jon 21/08/2016 at 10:17

         Did you finally got a helpful answer? I am stuck with the same problem.

         Thanks,
         Jon

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3. LiviuD 25/05/2015 at 10:36

   Hi!
   It works great on Linux Mint too.
   Thanks a lot!

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4. Francisco Prieto 22/05/2015 at 21:31

   Confirmation: new version (Forticlient SSLVPN 4.4.2313 64bit) works in Ubuntu 15.04

   Best regards.

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5. gabox 10/05/2015 at 02:23

   From Argentina, It works for me. thanks a lot. I use linux mint 17 64b

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6. Laszlo Kertesz 05/05/2015 at 22:10

   Works on Debian 8 Jessie (its actually testing) 64 bit.

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7. Mr. Collazo 04/05/2015 at 17:28

   It also work on Mint 17, YEAH! Thank you.

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8. Fabian Kallmeier 28/04/2015 at 16:45

   Worked for me on debian wheezy after forcing the install because of the error mentioned above:

   “The package calls for libpango-1.0-0, yet Debian Stable only provides libpango1.0-0 You have the correct name, but Debian hasn’t caught up yet.”

   For debians new stable (jessie) it should be fine I guess.

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9. Ti Post author28/04/2015 at 09:25

   Hi,

   oh, sorry for that inconvenience. I just did “copy & paste” and it was late already 😀
   As that i released it as beta, i will fix this issues and release a new package soonest.

   Thanks Giovanni for your support.
   Rene

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10. Giovanni Mellini 28/04/2015 at 06:00

    Ti,
    I tested the new patch on Ubuntu 14.10 and is working fine too. So I think the last patch is ok for all Ubuntu version from 14.04 to 15.04

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11. Giovanni Mellini 28/04/2015 at 05:30

    Hi Ti
    wordpress converts the double quotes in a wrong way, so please refer to the quotes of the original grep “inet” syntax to fix the package.

    Giovanni

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12. Giovanni Mellini 28/04/2015 at 05:27

    Hi Ti,
    I tried the new .deb package for 15.04 for 64bit (Forticlient SSLVPN 4.4.2312-2 64bit) and is not working.
    Is not working because the patched sysconfig.linux.sh inside 64bit/helper/ dir contains the wrong doble quotes around the brd word.

    In your script is:
    grep “brd”
    and shall be:
    grep “brd”

    I tested the new package on Ubuntu 14.04 (not in 14.10 because is not booting in VirtualBox) and I found that the right grep word to use to have the new package working in 14.04 (and 14.10 too probably) is “peer”.

    So the right patch is to change line 66 of sysconfig.linux.sh as follow:
    addr=`ip addr show $ifn | grep “inet” | grep “peer” | tr ‘/’ ‘ ‘ | awk ‘{ print $2 }’`

    This is tested and working on Ubuntu 14.04 and 15.04 64bit (32bit is the same).

    I noticed that the 32bit package for 15.04 is not patched so please include the fix in 32bit/helper/sysconfyg.linux.sh file.
    Last. The 32bit/ dir is inside 64bit package too; can be removed or just patch the script inside 32bit dir too.

    Tks again
    Giovanni

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13. Ti Post author26/04/2015 at 20:02

    Okay, that script part was already once a problem in a former release of forticlient ssl-vpn. We contacted fortinet about the problem and they made the fix then in their official files available.

    I will contact Fortinet again, so we will have a clean release with that adjustment. Maybe i will release a special Package for Ubuntu 15.04, please be patient.

    Cheers
    Rene

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14. Francisco Prieto 25/04/2015 at 20:27

    @Giovanni Mellini
    Thanks for the patch. Now all works in 15.04 again.

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15. Giovanni Mellini 25/04/2015 at 15:47

    Hi,
    First of all tks for packaging the FortiClient 🙂

    I just upgraded to Ubuntu 15.04 today and noticed that the FortiClient was not working.
    I did a bit of search in the code and found where the problem is and tested a patch against your last package (forticlient-sslvpn_4.4.2312-1_amd64.deb).

    Follow the patch, that is for sysconfig.linux.sh file (both in 32 and 64bit dir):

    gmellini@jellyfish:/opt/forticlient-sslvpn/64bit/helper$ diff -u sysconfig.linux.sh.SAVE sysconfig.linux.sh
    — sysconfig.linux.sh.SAVE 2015-04-25 08:01:16.993683848 +0200
    +++ sysconfig.linux.sh 2015-04-25 15:06:41.236863760 +0200
    @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
    ifn=`route -n|grep “^1.1.1.1″|awk ‘{print $8}’`
    echo “interface $ifn” >> “$base/forticlientsslvpn.log”

    -addr=`ip addr show $ifn | grep “inet” | tr ‘/’ ‘ ‘ | awk ‘{ print $2 }’`
    +addr=`ip addr show $ifn | grep “inet” | grep “brd” | tr ‘/’ ‘ ‘ | awk ‘{ print $2 }’`
    echo “address $addr” >> “$base/forticlientsslvpn.log”

    echo “delete route 1.1.1.1” >> “$base/forticlientsslvpn.log”
    gmellini@jellyfish:/opt/forticlient-sslvpn/64bit/helper$

    As you can see the only thing to do is to add the
    grep “brd” |
    after
    grep “inet” |
    on row 65 of the script.

    The problem is the following with Ubuntu 15.04
    After the connection goes up and ppp0 interface is created (A.B.C.D is the IP address of SSL gateway)

    gmellini@jellyfish:/opt/forticlient-sslvpn/64bit/helper$ ip addr show ppp0
    13: ppp0: mtu 1354 qdisc pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN group default qlen 3
    link/ppp
    inet A.B.C.D peer 1.1.1.1/32 scope global ppp0
    valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet A.B.C.D/32 brd A.B.C.D scope global ppp0
    valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    gmellini@jellyfish:/opt/forticlient-sslvpn/64bit/helper$

    the script execute the following command (line 65) and store the output in $addr var:
    gmellini@jellyfish:/opt/forticlient-sslvpn/64bit/helper$ ip addr show ppp0 | grep “inet” | tr ‘/’ ‘ ‘ | awk ‘{ print $2 }’
    A.B.C.D
    A.B.C.D
    gmellini@jellyfish:/opt/forticlient-sslvpn/64bit/helper$

    as you can see with 15.04 you receive a double IP in 2 rows.

    After that the script fails on line 98 while executing
    route -n add default gw $addr
    because $addr is a multi line value and we see in the log the error reported in some comment:
    SIOCADDRT: No such device

    After the patch the command executed is the following:
    gmellini@jellyfish:/opt/forticlient-sslvpn/64bit/helper$ ip addr show ppp0 | grep “inet” | grep “brd” | tr ‘/’ ‘ ‘ | awk ‘{ print $2 }’
    A.B.C.D
    gmellini@jellyfish:/opt/forticlient-sslvpn/64bit/helper$

    and the $addr var is now ok. Everything works fine 🙂

    I didn’t tested the patch in older Ubuntu version (14.10 or 14.04) where the original script where working but I’m pretty sure it’s ok, because the brd key is every time here.

    So can someone else test and if possible can you repackage your .deb with the patch included?
    Tks
    Giovanni

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16. Francisco Prieto 23/04/2015 at 23:21

    Thank you very much for these packages.

    IWorked like a charm in Ubuntu 14.10, but I just installed Ubuntu 15.04 (final release) and doesn’t work; it connects to tunnel but it doesn’t work at all…

    Hope there will be a new forticlient release soon…

    Thanks and best regards.

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17. Ti Post author23/04/2015 at 22:17

    Hi,

    I do not modify the original files provided by fortinet, i just build the “easy2go” .deb package arround it. If you want to modify some files, please do after installation or use the original package from fortinet.

    I always use the latest original package provided by fortinet in their support area, you need an account to access it. But there are also plenty of other sites hosting this files. The official site http://forticlient.com should also provide the clients.

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    1. Me 14/01/2017 at 00:53

       Fortinet does not provide client for linux.

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       1. nikanik 04/03/2017 at 13:53

          Hi,
          but he sad … forum.fortinet.com/tm.aspx?m=122598 that there is

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          1. Ti Post author05/03/2017 at 11:30

             Of course there is, my package is based on that.

             There is even a opensource version in development: https://github.com/adrienverge/openfortivpn

             Keep in mind this is CLI only.

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             1. William Ribeiro 24/10/2017 at 15:00

                Great! opensource is allway the best way!
18. Jonh Wendell 23/04/2015 at 15:14

    Hi! Where we can download the original (upstream) files from?

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19. Hilton Rudman 21/04/2015 at 12:56

    Installed and working on LinuxMint 17.1 (rebecca), thanks!

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20. Gabriele Vidali 16/04/2015 at 10:19

    I suggest modifying the cleanup.linux.sh.
    Ubuntu’s /etc/resolv.conf file is a symbolic link to /run/resolvconf/resolv.conf so change it to:
    mv -f “$base/resolv.conf.backup” /run/resolvconf/resolv.conf

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    1. Renzo 06/05/2015 at 23:40

       I think it’s better this way:
       replace
       mv -f "$base/resolv.conf.backup" /etc/resolv.conf
       with
       cat "$base/resolv.conf.backup" > /etc/resolv.conf
       so it doesn’t matter if the target is a link or not
       I made new packages
       https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14120212/forticlient-sslvpn_4.4.2312-4_amd64.deb
       https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14120212/forticlient-sslvpn_4.4.2312-4_i386.deb

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21. Joris 16/04/2015 at 09:45

    Me and my colleagues are very happy! Just click and play! Great.

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22. Kareem Salah 03/04/2015 at 17:20

    Dude You are the best …. Thanks a lot

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23. Ti Post author02/04/2015 at 12:12

    Thanks for the information, lets see if i can investigate this further. But first i need to install Debian 🙂

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24. Kyle Gordon 31/03/2015 at 16:53

    Many thanks for this! However, with regards to Debian support, install seems to fail on Debian Wheezy.

    The package calls for libpango-1.0-0, yet Debian Stable only provides libpango1.0-0 You have the correct name, but Debian hasn’t caught up yet.

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25. Ti Post author23/03/2015 at 06:49

    Interesting, i didnt try it with Ubuntu 15.04 now. But as Ubuntu 15.04 final isnt released now it can be a bug there or in the SSL-VPN Binaries. Lets wait for the final Ubuntu 15.04 release, then we can test again and in case report it to the Fortinet Support Team.

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26. James 21/03/2015 at 00:34

    This is super awesome, but isn’t working in Ubuntu 15.04. I think there’s a problem with the way the setup script tries to add a route, because the log shows an error: route -n add -net 192.168.XXX.XXX netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 10.212.XXX.XXX
SIOCADDRT: No such device

    Manually adding a route (using sudo and the above command in a terminal) appears to make it all work.

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27. Felipe 12/03/2015 at 21:31

    Man you deserve more than a beer, you deserve a bottle of vodka, thanks so much

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28. Miguel Covarrubias 28/02/2015 at 00:20

    Amazing!!!! thanks dude!

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29. Marcos Thompson 24/02/2015 at 22:48

    Man, you deserve a beer! Thank you very much!

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30. nwildner 24/02/2015 at 22:31

    I’ll pay you a beer. No more need to install complete “ia32-libs” to make this piece of software run.

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    1. Diana Bedoya 06/09/2016 at 16:29

       Works great on debian Jessie, thank you very much!

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    2. Christian Dysthe 15/09/2016 at 19:26

       This is great! Only problem is that it’s tiny on my HiDPI sreen. If it would be possible to resize the windows that would do it.

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    3. Bogdan Popescu 03/08/2017 at 09:12

       Hy !
       I have a Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and I try different version for my version but is not working….It apper a message that say …Waiting to install….and it’s stop.
       If you have any suggestion…..thank you very much

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       1. Jimmy 07/12/2017 at 18:14

          try it on the command-line using apt/apt-get/gdebi/dpkg?

          https://superuser.com/questions/196864/how-to-install-local-deb-packages-with-apt-get/698249

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    4. Mike Ainasoa 05/05/2020 at 21:00

       Thank you it’s work great on Ubuntu Focal fossa

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