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Prebuilt Packages

Douglas Kosovic edited this page Mar 25, 2019 · 29 revisions

The following lists some official and 3rd party repositories with a NetworkManager-l2tp package, it also provides instructions (or links to instructions) on how to install.

Fedora

Issue the following to install NetworkManager-l2tp and its GNOME companion package :

sudo dnf install NetworkManager-l2tp NetworkManager-l2tp-gnome

If you wish to switch from libreswan to strongswan for the IPsec support with this VPN plugin, first uninstall libreswan then install strongswan:

sudo rpm -e libreswan
sudo dnf install strongswan

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and CentOS 7

Install the EPEL repository which on CentOS can be done by running the following:

sudo yum install epel-release

or on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 by running the following :

wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
sudo rpm -Uvh epel-release-latest-7*.rpm

Issue the following to install NetworkManager-l2tp and its GNOME companion package :

sudo yum install NetworkManager-l2tp NetworkManager-l2tp-gnome

Ubuntu and Mint

Ubuntu 17.10 and later, Mint 19 and later

Issue the following to install network-manager-l2tp and its GNOME companion package :

sudo apt install network-manager-l2tp network-manager-l2tp-gnome

To avoid Ubuntu bug LP#1778946 which breaks DNS resolution after disconnecting the VPN connection, install the resolvconf package : sudo apt install resolvconf

If you wish to switch from strongswan to libreswan for the IPsec support, issue:

sudo apt install libreswan

Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04, Mint 17 and 18

Add the PPA from :

by running:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nm-l2tp/network-manager-l2tp
sudo apt update

Issue the following to install network-manager-l2tp and its GNOME companion package :

sudo apt install network-manager-l2tp network-manager-l2tp-gnome

With Ubuntu 16.04 and later, if you wish to switch from strongswan to libreswan for the IPsec support, issue:

sudo apt install libreswan

Debian

Debian Sid

Issue the following to install network-manager-l2tp and its GNOME companion package :

sudo apt install network-manager-l2tp network-manager-l2tp-gnome

If you wish to switch from strongswan to libreswan for the IPsec support, issue:

sudo apt install libreswan

Arch Linux

networkmanager-l2tp package can be found in Arch User Repository (AUR) :

openSUSE

openSUSE Tumbleweed and openSUSE Leap 14.3 and later

Issue the following to install NetworkManager-l2tp and its GNOME companion package :

sudo zypper install NetworkManager-l2tp NetworkManager-l2tp-gnome

Note: NetworkManager-l2tp 1.0.8 is the latest version for NetworkManager 0.9.8 or 1.0 based Linux distributions.

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