275 thoughts on “Forticlient – SSLVPN .deb packages”

1. Daniel França 29/12/2015 at 17:21

   One beer for you!

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2. fprietog 28/12/2015 at 23:28

   Thank you very much for keeping us updated!

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3. Ti Post author21/12/2015 at 16:24

   This seems to be a inconsistency with the Fortinet package which is named 4.4.xxxx so i keep the name ; )

   Cheers
   Rene

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4. Jan 16/12/2015 at 11:31

   Help -> About… -> FortiClient SSLVPN 4.0.2323
   the current version is: Forticlient SSLVPN 4.4.2323 😉

   Thanks

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5. Ti Post author15/12/2015 at 09:36

   Hi Stephan,

   the original files are available only via Fortinet support subscription.

   https://support.fortinet.com/

   Cheers
   Rene

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6. Stephan P. 14/12/2015 at 17:25

   Could you please provide a link to the original tar.gz? All links I found via Google are outdated.

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7. diozen 23/11/2015 at 20:14

   I dont know why but I dont have the entire routing table in my Kali Linux 2.0, when I use the old version I have almost 140 routes and now using the newest version I only have 57 routes.

   Any idea?.

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8. sasikumar 17/11/2015 at 12:17

   Works like a charm on ubuntu 15.10. It fails to work with mobile data card (usbttymodem) because the service provider (I think some of them) is using pppd service and its locked and not accessible by forticlient.

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9. Ricardo Branco 30/10/2015 at 19:29

   Just need to add the ppp package to the dependencies. Nice work!

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10. Vernier 18/10/2015 at 15:34

    Working like a charm!

    I had to move the priority of dns up a bit to enable name lookups through the VPN. See following change to /etc/nsswitch.conf:

    diff /etc/nsswitch.conf.backup /etc/nsswitch.conf
    11c11
    hosts: files dns mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return]

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11. Alex 15/10/2015 at 23:17

    Hi, my setup does not start on Mint 17.2 KDE. Says: “This is first time you run forticlient ssl and you need the admin privilege to config”. Klick “ok” and the dialog to “accept the license agreement” is shown. “Accept”ed and than the (correct) root-password is given. Reaction: freezing “first time” window …
    I tried to install “ia32-libs-gtk” & “libgtk2.0-0:i386” & “xterm” manually – no way, not even an obvious shown error.
    Any ideas?
    Thanks !

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    1. Gabo 23/01/2016 at 18:59

       Hi
       I have the same problem as you, Did you manage to install it?
       Could you install it? How did you do ?

       Help me please

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       1. Dio 27/06/2016 at 05:23

          I have the same issue. Have you solved it?

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    2. Pavla 14/07/2016 at 13:02

       Hi, I have exactly the same problem. I don’t know what to do :-(. If you will have any ideas, let me know, thanks 🙂

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12. Amit 09/10/2015 at 07:41

    You did a great job Man, Thanks a lot 🙂

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13. Eder Fontalvo Melendez 07/10/2015 at 15:22

    Excellent !!, very good. It works great on Ubuntu 14.04.1 with Gnome

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14. Rob G 25/09/2015 at 16:53

    BTW… forgot to mention this is running great on Linux Mint 17.2 Cinnamon (14.04 Ubuntu).

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15. Rob G 25/09/2015 at 16:50

    Nice package! Software package that is!

    You sir win the internets!

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16. Chris 05/09/2015 at 22:03

    Thank you!

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17. SilvioQ 29/08/2015 at 14:14

    Hi! Thanks for the work. I tested on Debian Jessie and the client connects to server, but don’t create the tunnel.

    In Debian wheezy I used the forticlient client 22xx (Dec 2012) without troubles.

    Here is the log http://pastie.org/10383365

    Thanks in advance!
    Silvio

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18. Ti Post author24/08/2015 at 09:30

    Hi Whenpigswifi,

    depends on what you want to do. This package also includes the forticlient CLI utility whereas you can use it for your shell scripts. Its located in /opt/forticlient-sslvpn/[your-arch]/forticlientsslvpn_cli . Please note that Fortinet only provides this file as binary, so you cannot edit the source code. In the folder “helper” are some .sh files located, maybe you can use them for your work.

    Cheers Rene

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19. Whenpigswifi 24/08/2015 at 03:29

    This is great!

    Question, or maybe I missed it in the article, but I have been looking for a way to hook into the fortinet vpn via command line. Is there anything out there like this?

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20. fprietog 18/08/2015 at 18:57

    Updated & working:
    Forticlient SSLVPN 4.4.2317 64bit @ Ubuntu 15.04

    Thank you very much for keeping us up to date!

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21. mugen 18/08/2015 at 17:02

    Thanks is work perfect

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22. Leonardo Lopes 17/08/2015 at 02:25

    Man,

    Thank you so much! Amazing! Working!

    You really deserve a beer!

    Ubuntu 14.0.4

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23. Leonardo Lopes 17/08/2015 at 02:24

    Man,

    Thank you so much! Amazing! Working!

    You really deserve a beer!

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24. Nikolay 30/07/2015 at 18:38

    Hello,
    Did anyone have the following error?
    debug1: ssh_exchange_identification: FortiClient security check failed. Please retry connection using http for FortiClient security checking.
    I receive that when i try to ssh to a server over the VPN? Google doesn’t know anything…

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25. Juan M. Molina 29/07/2015 at 13:42

    Installed and working flawlessly on Ubuntu 15.04 64bit. I didn’t need to do anything other than install the .deb package.

    Thank you very much!

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26. Damian 28/07/2015 at 19:42

    Amazing!

    I’ve just installed the .deb and it worked right away.

    Thank you very much!
    D.

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27. Nahhaal 14/07/2015 at 23:56

    Confirming that the provided .deb package works OK on LMDE 2 (betsie) [64bit]

    —
    sudo gdebi forticlient-sslvpn_4.4.2313-1_amd64.deb

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28. Fábio 01/07/2015 at 17:34

    Hello

    Using Debian 8 (Jessie), I’m having showlicense error when I accept the terms:
    showlicense: Fatal IO error 5 (Input/output error) on X server :0.

    Any idea?

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    1. RazaMetaL 16/12/2015 at 13:39

       I’m having the same issue on Debian SID. There is any package necesary to show the licence?

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    2. Ravi 05/01/2016 at 05:26

       I get this error as well in Debian 8. But running the command line client to start the vpn is working for me.

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    3. NaturalFork 08/04/2016 at 20:09

       I am having the same issue. The command line version works fine, which is all I really need. I know this boils down to not having a certain package installed. I just forget which one it is.

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    4. Capita 22/03/2017 at 01:15

       Hi folks ! I had the same issue that you have, and what I did was the following:
       Open a console as root and run /opt/forticlient-sslvpn/64bit/./helper/setup
       This setup script will show you the license, just press space bar and at the end, write yes and press Enter.
       That’s it, jsut open you forti client app and configure it. good luck.

       if you have any question write me an email beagleskywalker@gmail.com

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       1. kusoichi 07/02/2019 at 12:39

          Works great for me.. Thank you!

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29. sithum 25/06/2015 at 06:01

    Thanks a lot mate! This works like a charm

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30. Marco 22/06/2015 at 17:18

    Thanks mate 🙂
    worked almost flawlessly
    I had to manually install lib32gcc1 on my 64bit Ubuntu 14.04
    Other than this everything worked out just fine

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