275 thoughts on “Forticlient – SSLVPN .deb packages”

1. Dave 03/08/2016 at 07:05

   Installed on CentOS 6.8 x86_64 using alien to convert to rpm. It required several i686 compatibility libraries not present by default on CentOS 6.8.

   1. Install CentOS 6.8 x86_64
   2. Install EPEL Repo

   sudo yum install epel-release

   3. Install Nux Desktop (apparently required to get alien)

   sudo rpm -Uvh http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el6/x86_64/nux-dextop-release-0-2.el6.nux.noarch.rpm
   yum update && yum install alien

   Borrowed from: http://www.tecmint.com/convert-from-rpm-to-deb-and-deb-to-rpm-package-using-alien/

   4. Install missing libraries

   sudo yum install gtk2-2.24.23-8.el6.i686 gdk-pixbuf2-2.24.1-6.el6_7.i686 glib2-2.28.8-5.el6.i686 glib2-2.28.8-5.el6.i686 libSM-1.2.1-2.el6.i686 libX11-1.6.3-2.el6.i686 libXinerama-1.1.3-2.1.el6.i686 libgcc-4.4.7-17.el6.i686

   5. Convert .deb to .rpm

   cd /path/to/deb
   sudo alien –to-rpm –scripts forticlient-sslvpn_4.4.2329-1_amd64.deb

   6. Install .rpm

   rpm -ivh forticlient-sslvpn-4.4.2329-2.x86_64.rpm

   7. Locate and Invoke Forticlient SSL VPN application

   Applications=>Internet=>Forticlient SSL VPN (In my case)

   8. Do a little dance, drink a little beer, be happy 🙂

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2. Anders Bolager 15/07/2016 at 23:19

   Thanks a lot. If I knew how, a six-pack would be on your way. (Oh, yeah, I hope you like micro brewed beer 🙂 )

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3. John Valencia 15/07/2016 at 17:02

   thanks a lot

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4. Dio 08/07/2016 at 11:35

   Hi, my setup does not start on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Says: “This is first time you run forticlient ssl and you need the admin privilege to config”. Click “ok” and the dialog to “accept the license agreement” is shown. “Accept”ed and freezing on the “first run” window …

   Any ideas?
   Thanks !

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   1. Ti Post author22/08/2016 at 16:52

      Hi, you tried already starting several times?

      My workmate had the same problem, but after some more startups it worked.

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   2. brad 10/12/2016 at 04:42

      I had the same problem, first run GUI wouldn’t accept my correct root password several times. What I did was:
      I’m using forticlient-sslvpn_4.4.2330-1_amd64.deb (installation with dpkg was ok)
      and Debian testing stretch

      1) execute:
      myUser@myHost:~$ /opt/forticlient-sslvpn/64bit/helper/setup.linux.sh
      Need root privilege to continue the setup, trying sodu…
      [sudo] password for myUser:
      Sorry, user myUser is not allowed to execute ‘/opt/forticlient-sslvpn/64bit/helper/setup.linux.sh 3’ as root on myHost.
      /opt/forticlient-sslvpn/64bit/helper/setup.linux.sh: line 29: /opt/forticlient-sslvpn/64bit/helper/forticlientsslvpn.install.log: Permission denied
      it seems that ‘sudo’ does not work here, try to use ‘su’
      Password:
      Here I used my root password and it was accepted, then I agreed EULA

      2) Then:

      myUser@myHost:~$ /opt/forticlient-sslvpn/64bit/forticlientsslvpn_cli -server vpnServer:vpnPort -vpnuser vpnUser
      Password for VPN:

      after give vpnuser password and accept certificate it worked 🙂

      STATUS::Login succeed
      STATUS::Starting PPPd
      STATUS::Initializing tunnel
      STATUS::Connecting to server
      STATUS::Connected
      Press Ctrl-C to quit
      STATUS::Tunnel running

      Then it also worked on GUI

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      1. sudharshann 22/05/2018 at 06:10

         thanks

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      2. Docent 28/11/2019 at 05:16

         Thank you bro!

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5. Miguel 30/06/2016 at 22:04

   Thank you very much bro!!!

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6. Andrea 08/06/2016 at 09:33

   Hi, I’m running Debian 8 (if I read correctly on Kernel 3.16.0.4) on VM using VMWare.
   The installation is been concluded succesfully, but when I try to run the Forticlientsslvpn, I put the Root pwd but by cliccking “Agree” on Licence form, the form “First run” won’t load correctly and shown only a gray form.
   any idea?

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   1. Ti Post author14/06/2016 at 10:53

      Hi, try to start the program several times. I had this problem too on some machines but didnt figure out what causes the problem.

      Cheers Rene

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7. Patrick Galbraith 20/05/2016 at 22:55

   Is there a way to run this command line mode?

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   1. Pavel Katovich 03/06/2016 at 11:35

      /opt/forticlient-sslvpn/64bit/forticlientsslvpn_cli –server host:port –vpnuser username

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8. Peter 20/05/2016 at 14:52

   Should I use the old versions for Ubuntu 14.04 or can I use the new builds?

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   1. Ti Post author14/06/2016 at 10:57

      Hi, the only difference is that the new builds are dependent on Ubuntu 16.04 packages. It may also run on Ubuntu 14.04 but i did not test. Also there is still the same forticlientsslvpn package version, so to be save use the 14.04 build as there is no benifit to use the Ubuntu 16.04 build.

      Cheers Rene

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9. cirovladimir 18/05/2016 at 21:54

   Awesome! Thank you very much.

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10. Guido Estevez 18/05/2016 at 18:01

    Hi,
    I´m using Ubuntu 16.04 64 in a VirtualBox machine with Forticlient SSLVPN 4.4.2327-2 64bit

    The connection failed after few seconds. When the Bytes sent: count 945

    Status: Connected
    Bytes received: 163
    Bytes sent: 945

    Any idea?
    Thank you very much in advance

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11. Robert Simpson 16/05/2016 at 01:20

    Hello there.. I just installed this on a new Debian 8 machine and can create a connection via an SSH session. The connection takes over the session so I created another SSH session and tried to ssh to a remote switch and it did not work. I am assuming that the connection does not share connections with other sessions. I do not intend to use this locally with a desktop but only through SSH connections.
    Any pointers

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12. Luis Enrique 14/05/2016 at 20:37

    Hi

    I installed Forticlient SSLVPN 4.4.2327-2 64bit deb package , and somehow it didn’t appear on desktop space , but it was there. For ubuntu 16.04 just searching on /usr/share/applications and putting the fortinetclient-sslvpn.desktop on the bar and work without issues.

    Maybe the problem is on ubuntu side cause the same issue was with virtualbox. Semthing weird
    thank you for your work , i appreciate that , cheers !

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    1. Velkoon 22/04/2018 at 07:24

       Thank you so very, very, very much. As freaking always with everything I have ever attempted to do in the stupid terrible unintuitive Linux interface, what was said was supposed to happen, did not; There was no icon on the desktop after installation executed in the Package Manager (of course). I was helplessly scrolling through this flood of comments, hoping I’d run into someone who knew how to actually START THE PROGRAM, an EXTREMELY IMPORTANT (duh) and, incredibly surprisingly, EXTREMELY COMMONLY unsaid piece of information that is ever-so-often not included in program installation guides I find online

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13. John 22/04/2016 at 06:14

    Does this work for anyone on Ubuntu 16.04? I tried but the install failed

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    1. Edward Chew 22/04/2016 at 11:12

       Not working on Ubuntu 16.04

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    2. Eugen 24/04/2016 at 12:55

       Hi,

       yes it work for me on 16.04 but i install it manually.
       unzip the deb package and put the opt directory into your opt directory.
       i try it with the 4.4.2312-3 66 bit version because the newer versions doesn’t work for me.

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    3. Ti Post author12/05/2016 at 06:41

       Hello,
       manual install by “dpkg -i ” on CMDline shoud work. I will further investigate this and will release 16.04 compatible packages.

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14. Patricio Ascencio 20/04/2016 at 20:13

    Hi,

    Do you have de tar.gz from generic package. I need it for fedora.

    Thanks!

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15. Adeildo 16/04/2016 at 17:49

    Gostei…. tive dificuldade com o pacote FortiClient SSLVPN 4.0.2312 no ubuntu 14LTS, problema com permissão no arquivo /home/user/.fctsslvpnhistory, mas resolvi com chown.

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    1. Jonathan 23/11/2017 at 17:10

       Que tipo de problema você teve Adeildo?
       Estou com o seguinte problema:
       Meu arquivo fctsslvpnhistory some sempre que reinicio o computador, perco as configurações de conexões salvas.

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16. C Bille 12/04/2016 at 10:43

    Hello,
    i cannot configure the client on the first run. Demands the root password and does not accept it. Any clues ? I tried with several keymaps but cannot find which one use. Qwerty, Qwartz, Azerty ?
    Thanks

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17. kushieda 07/04/2016 at 01:22

    Is there a way to disable the client from modifying my resolv.conf file? I run a local dnsmasq cache that already handles the VPN name servers and would like to prevent it from changing it.

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18. Alberto 29/03/2016 at 20:05

    When I Installed this package I’m getting this error “Setup Failed”. Currently I’m using Debian 8

    Any idea???

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19. fprietog 29/03/2016 at 00:49

    Thank you for the update!!!

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20. MAddy 26/03/2016 at 16:16

    Thanks Buddy, Beer from my side too. ~India

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21. Ronald Rodriguez 24/03/2016 at 04:39

    Thank you !!! from Ecuador – South America

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22. Cody S 01/03/2016 at 18:42

    This is awesome. I’ve been migrating things from Ubuntu 9.10 to 14.04 and the forticlient that I brought over didn’t seem to work out very well. While Forticlient didn’t offer me much help in the ways of documentation to troubleshoot the issue, simply installing this deb and using that fixed my problem. Thank you.

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23. rohit 27/02/2016 at 11:17

    Is there any way to use this on fedora 23 ? I tried converting it to rpm package, didn’t work.

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    1. Ti Post author26/03/2016 at 11:39

       Hi Rohit,

       Fortinet only provides a generic tar.gz file and i repackage it for Debian/Ubuntu.

       So it should be fine if you unpack the deb package and copy it manually to your /opt directory.

       Cheers
       Rene

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    2. Dag Olav Prestegarden 14/07/2016 at 19:27

       First of all: Thank you very much for this package Rene, it’s much appreciated 🙂

       @rohit:

       I had the same problem as you and managed to get it working using the following procedure::

       1: Convert the deb-file to rpm using alien: alien -r forticlient-sslvpn_4.4.2329-1_amd64.deb (the resulting rpm will not work as it supplies paths that collides with Fedoras filesystem package)
       2: Edit the rpm using rpmrebuild: rpmrebuild -pe forticlient-sslvpn-4.4.2329-1.x86_64.rpm
       3: Remove the lines at the bottom of the file that tries to supply the folders that already exists in your base filesystem. In my case, this was:
       
%dir %attr(0755, root, root) "/"
%dir %attr(0755, root, root) "/opt"
%dir %attr(0755, root, root) "/usr"
%dir %attr(0755, root, root) "/usr/share"
%dir %attr(0755, root, root) "/usr/share/applications"
%dir %attr(0755, root, root) "/usr/share/doc"

       4: The resulting file worked fine, and installed fine using dnf. The installed program tested and worked fine on my Fedora 24 64bit system.

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24. Matthias Braun 20/02/2016 at 13:38

    Hi and thanks a lot for the packages!

    Is there a way to import a .conn, .sconn, .vpl, or .vpz file into the Forticlient?

    Thanks in advance!

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    1. Ti Post author26/03/2016 at 11:43

       Hi Matthias,

       unfortunately no, the linux sslvpn only provides very limited functionality.

       The configuration is saved in ~/.fctsslvpnhistory , maybe this helps you.

       Cheers Rene

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25. Starbeamrainbowlabs 18/02/2016 at 17:43

    Do you have a PPA available? It would be so much more convenient to install this with apt-get. THen It’ll auto-update, too.

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    1. Ti Post author20/02/2016 at 12:49

       I am already working on an apt-repo, but will take some time until release. Stay tuned : )

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       1. Starbeamrainbowlabs 20/02/2016 at 14:05

          Thanks!

          Suggestion: https://launchpad.net/ lets you create your own hosted PPAs for free.

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26. Santhosh Kumar K 11/02/2016 at 18:31

    Thank you for sharing this client.

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27. Lindsay 21/01/2016 at 23:23

    Hi,

    I have run into a problem with Forticlient on Ubuntu 15.10. I can use dig and nslookup to resolve names inside the VPNed network and I can ping and connect to systems inside the VPNed network using the raw IP address but not by their FQDNs.

    I’ve tried all versions from 4.4.2312 to 4.4.2323 with the same result.

    Any clues anyone?

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    1. Erik 02/02/2017 at 06:02

       I am having the same issue.

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28. Ti Post author07/01/2016 at 08:51

    Hi Peter,

    it seems when packaging to a .deb file the binaries changes, i could not further investigate.

    Try on your own with the latest release .2323:
    1. Download the source package: https://hadler.me/files/ubuntu-forticlient-sslvpn.tar.gz
    2. Optional: If you want you can replace the binaries now with your own downloaded
    3. Build the package with: debuild -us -uc

    Cheers Rene

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29. Peter 06/01/2016 at 18:24

    Nice work!
    But I have noticed the following.
    If I unpack and compare the binaries from your package v 4.4.2317 with binaries from the tar.gz file (same version) from Fortinet they are different.
    Also when installing your package it is possible to run the FortiClient whit out sudo, whereas this is not possible with the files from the tarball from Fortinet

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30. Antônio Marcos 06/01/2016 at 13:59

    In english Very good, in spanish Muy bueno, in french très bonne, but i am from Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, so Here we say “Show de bola”. Thanks man!

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