Forticlient SSL: apt-get Problems

 

A little issue I stumble upon on the X220 after installing the Forticlient SSL VPN client... Not a biggie, but annoying...

sojourner ~ $ sudo apt-get update
[sudo] password for XXXXXXXX:
Ign:1 http://packages.linuxmint.com sarah InRelease                                                                                                         
Hit:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                                                                                
Hit:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease                                                  
Hit:4 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                                         
Hit:5 http://packages.linuxmint.com sarah Release                                            
Hit:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease         
Hit:8 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
sojourner ~ $ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 forticlient-sslvpn : Depends: lib32gcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1) but it is not installed
                      Depends: libc6-i386 (>= 2.3.4) but it is not installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
sojourner ~ $

So, following instructions:

$ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  lib32gcc1 libc6-i386
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  lib32gcc1 libc6-i386
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 2.381 kB of archives.
After this operation, 10,6 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 

Already had a similar problem before, again, courtesy of Forticlient SSL.

Forticlient 64 bits on Ubuntu 16.04

As part of the migration to Xenial Xerus on my Thinkpad X140e, I had to install the Forticlient SSL client no matter what, as I use it a lot for work related stuff.
I had to deal with this a couple of times already...
This time things went somehow smooth:

sudo dpkg -i forticlient-sslvpn_4.4.2313-1_amd64.deb
Selecting previously unselected package forticlient-sslvpn.
(Reading database ... 182887 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack forticlient-sslvpn_4.4.2313-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking forticlient-sslvpn (4.4.2313-1) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of forticlient-sslvpn:
 forticlient-sslvpn depends on lib32gcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1); however:
  Package lib32gcc1 is not installed.
 forticlient-sslvpn depends on libc6-i386 (>= 2.3.4); however:
  Package libc6-i386 is not installed.

Installed without much fuss, but, stupid me, forgot to issue a dry run first...
Any ways... The Forticlient work A Ok after this (go figure), but the dkpg message seemed a bit ominous and annoying...

First things firt, let's try with the damn dependency error:

sudo apt-get install libc6-i386

dpkg: error processing package forticlient-sslvpn (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160415-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 forticlient-sslvpn

No luck!

So I gave a shot a refreshing the packages:

$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree     
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 forticlient-sslvpn : Depends: lib32gcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1) but it is not installed
                      Depends: libc6-i386 (>= 2.3.4) but it is not installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.

Error!
And this was right after a fresh install of Xenial...
Issued a:

$ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree     
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  guile-2.0-libs libexiv2-14 libgc1c2 libgexiv2-2 libqqwing2v5 libraw15
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  lib32gcc1 libc6-i386
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  lib32gcc1 libc6-i386
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 2,381 kB of archives.
After this operation, 10.6 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y

And presto, problem solved.

Forticlient 64 bits on Ubuntu 14.04 (2)

Installed the 64 bits Forticlient SSL on the Thinkpad W530, no biggie, except that this time, after installing ir, and without the need to install the "lib32gcc1" package, I got an apt-get error, that force me to do a:

colossus > sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  account-plugin-windows-live empathy-common folks-common gnome-contacts
  gstreamer0.10-nice gstreamer0.10-plugins-good gstreamer0.10-x
  gstreamer1.0-nice guile-2.0-libs libavahi-gobject0 libfarstream-0.1-0
  libfarstream-0.2-2 libfolks-eds25 libfolks-telepathy25 libfolks25 libgc1c2
  libgupnp-igd-1.0-4 libmeanwhile1 libmission-control-plugins0 libnice10
  libpurple-bin libpurple0 libtelepathy-farstream3 libtelepathy-logger3
  libupstart1 libzephyr4 signon-plugin-password telepathy-gabble
  telepathy-haze telepathy-logger telepathy-mission-control-5 telepathy-salut
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  lib32gcc1 libc6-i386
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  lib32gcc1 libc6-i386
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 12 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 2,253 kB of archives.
After this operation, 10.0 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y

After that, everything seems to be A Ok, even after a reboot, and of course, the Forticlient SSL works ok as well.

Forticlient 64 bits on Ubuntu 14.04

Or good bye ia32-libs-gtk...
In the past, on Linux Mint (64 bits) I used to (sort of) simply install the 32 bits compatibility libs and be done with...
But, on Ubuntu (64 bits) that didn't work...
Thing is I need the VPN client for connecting to different work related data centers, no matter what, I need the program, and I need it to work A Ok.
Luckily, I found this page: Forticlient – SSLVPN .deb packages
Installed forticlient-sslvpn_4.4.2313-1_amd64.deb and it works flawlessly.
Had to install lib32gcc1 prior in order to get the dpkg correctly installed.

sudo apt-get install lib32gcc1
sudo dpkg -i forticlient-sslvpn_4.4.2313-1_amd64.deb

Installing Forticlient SSL on Linux Mint 17 (XFCE)

Another instalment of the eternal Forticlient installation woes on various Linux distros, this time Linux Mint 17, the FXCE variant, 32 bits.

It is really not that complicated, specially since this is on a 32 bits distro.

The plain vanilla installer won't work, since there isn't an Xterm installed (and I don't want to install one).

So, first things first, make the directory where the Forticlient will be installed:

sudo mkdir /usr/local/bin/forticlientsslvpn

And the copy the "forticlientsslvpn" and the directory "helper" to the above directory.
Move to the helper directory:

cd /usr/local/bin/forticlientsslvpn/helper

And edit the file "setup.linux.sh" and comment the line 12, and add a new one just below that looks like this:

xfce4-terminal -e "$0" Save the file.

Execute the installer, that is, execute the file

/usr/local/bin/forticlientsslvpn/forticlientsslvpn

It will ask your password, display a License Agreement scrollable banner, type "Yes" at the end of it.
After that a pop will tell you that installation (the Set up) failed, click Ok and forget about it.
Everything will work A Ok, this has been tested with FortiClient SSL VPN 4.0.2068 on a LM 17 32 bits with all the updates installed as of today.

Installing Forticlient SSL on Linux Mint (64 bits)

I need to use this rather crappy VPN client one to connect to a couple of an associate data centers.
These is are the steps to install the Fortigate SSL Client on Linux Mint Maya.
As usual, unpack it and execute the installer:

usul > ./forticlientsslvpn 
./forticlientsslvpn: error while loading shared libraries: \
libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

It'll fail, so, install the 32 bits libraries:

usul > sudo apt-get install ia32-libs-gtk
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'ia32-libs' instead of 'ia32-libs-gtk'
The following extra packages will be installed:
  bluez-alsa:i386 glib-networking:i386 gstreamer0.10-plugins-base:i386 gstreamer0.10-plugins-good:i386 gstreamer0.10-x:i386
  gtk2-engines:i386 gtk2-engines-murrine:i386 gtk2-engines-oxygen:i386 gtk2-engines-pixbuf:i386 gvfs:i386 gvfs-libs:i386
  ia32-libs-multiarch:i386 ibus-gtk:i386 libaa1:i386 libacl1:i386 libaio1:i386 libao-common libao4:i386 libatk1.0-0:i386
  libattr1:i386 libaudiofile1:i386 libavc1394-0:i386 libbz2-1.0:i386 libcaca0:i386 libcairo-gobject2:i386 libcairo2:i386
  libcanberra-gtk-module:i386 libcanberra-gtk0:i386 libcanberra0:i386 libcap2:i386 libcdparanoia0:i386 libcroco3:i386
  libcupsimage2:i386 libcurl3:i386 libdatrie1:i386 libdbus-glib-1-2:i386 libdv4:i386 libesd0:i386 libgail-common:i386
  libgail18:i386 libgconf-2-4:i386 libgdbm3:i386 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0:i386 libgettextpo0:i386 libgnome-keyring0:i386
  libgomp1:i386 libgtk2.0-0:i386 libgudev-1.0-0:i386 libibus-1.0-0:i386 libidn11:i386 libiec61883-0:i386 libjasper1:i386
  libmad0:i386 libmikmod2:i386 libncursesw5:i386 libnspr4:i386 libnss3:i386 libodbc1:i386 libpango1.0-0:i386
  libpixman-1-0:i386 libproxy1:i386 libpulse-mainloop-glib0:i386 libpulsedsp:i386 libqt4-designer:i386 libqt4-opengl:i386
  libqt4-qt3support:i386 libqt4-scripttools:i386 libqt4-svg:i386 libqt4-test:i386 libraw1394-11:i386 librsvg2-2:i386
  librsvg2-common:i386 librtmp0:i386 libsdl-image1.2:i386 libsdl-mixer1.2:i386 libsdl-net1.2:i386 libsdl-ttf2.0-0:i386
  libsdl1.2debian:i386 libshout3:i386 libslang2:i386 libsoup-gnome2.4-1:i386 libsoup2.4-1:i386 libspeex1:i386 libssl0.9.8:i386
  libstdc++5:i386 libtag1-vanilla:i386 libtag1c2a:i386 libtdb1:i386 libthai0:i386 libtheora0:i386 libudev0:i386
  libunistring0:i386 libvisual-0.4-0:i386 libvisual-0.4-plugins:i386 libvorbisfile3:i386 libwavpack1:i386 libxaw7:i386
  libxcb-render0:i386 libxcb-shm0:i386 libxft2:i386 libxmu6:i386 libxp6:i386 libxtst6:i386 odbcinst1debian2:i386 oss-compat
  xaw3dg:i386
Suggested packages:
  murrine-themes:i386 kde-config-gtk-style:i386 libpam-ldap:i386 libpam-winbind:i386 libnss-ldap:i386 libroar1:i386
  libsndio0:i386 roaraudio-server:i386 libcanberra-pulse:i386 libdv-bin:i386 oss-compat:i386 pulseaudio-esound-compat:i386
  gnome-keyring:i386 libjasper-runtime:i386 libmyodbc:i386 odbc-postgresql:i386 tdsodbc:i386 unixodbc-bin:i386
  ttf-baekmuk:i386 ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp:i386 ttf-arphic-bsmi00lp:i386 ttf-arphic-gkai00mp:i386 ttf-arphic-bkai00mp:i386
  libraw1394-doc:i386 librsvg2-bin:i386 speex:i386
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  bluez-alsa:i386 glib-networking:i386 gstreamer0.10-plugins-base:i386 gstreamer0.10-plugins-good:i386 gstreamer0.10-x:i386
  gtk2-engines:i386 gtk2-engines-murrine:i386 gtk2-engines-oxygen:i386 gtk2-engines-pixbuf:i386 gvfs:i386 gvfs-libs:i386
  ia32-libs ia32-libs-multiarch:i386 ibus-gtk:i386 libaa1:i386 libacl1:i386 libaio1:i386 libao-common libao4:i386
  libatk1.0-0:i386 libattr1:i386 libaudiofile1:i386 libavc1394-0:i386 libbz2-1.0:i386 libcaca0:i386 libcairo-gobject2:i386
  libcairo2:i386 libcanberra-gtk-module:i386 libcanberra-gtk0:i386 libcanberra0:i386 libcap2:i386 libcdparanoia0:i386
  libcroco3:i386 libcupsimage2:i386 libcurl3:i386 libdatrie1:i386 libdbus-glib-1-2:i386 libdv4:i386 libesd0:i386
  libgail-common:i386 libgail18:i386 libgconf-2-4:i386 libgdbm3:i386 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0:i386 libgettextpo0:i386
  libgnome-keyring0:i386 libgomp1:i386 libgtk2.0-0:i386 libgudev-1.0-0:i386 libibus-1.0-0:i386 libidn11:i386
  libiec61883-0:i386 libjasper1:i386 libmad0:i386 libmikmod2:i386 libncursesw5:i386 libnspr4:i386 libnss3:i386 libodbc1:i386
  libpango1.0-0:i386 libpixman-1-0:i386 libproxy1:i386 libpulse-mainloop-glib0:i386 libpulsedsp:i386 libqt4-designer:i386
  libqt4-opengl:i386 libqt4-qt3support:i386 libqt4-scripttools:i386 libqt4-svg:i386 libqt4-test:i386 libraw1394-11:i386
  librsvg2-2:i386 librsvg2-common:i386 librtmp0:i386 libsdl-image1.2:i386 libsdl-mixer1.2:i386 libsdl-net1.2:i386
  libsdl-ttf2.0-0:i386 libsdl1.2debian:i386 libshout3:i386 libslang2:i386 libsoup-gnome2.4-1:i386 libsoup2.4-1:i386
  libspeex1:i386 libssl0.9.8:i386 libstdc++5:i386 libtag1-vanilla:i386 libtag1c2a:i386 libtdb1:i386 libthai0:i386
  libtheora0:i386 libudev0:i386 libunistring0:i386 libvisual-0.4-0:i386 libvisual-0.4-plugins:i386 libvorbisfile3:i386
  libwavpack1:i386 libxaw7:i386 libxcb-render0:i386 libxcb-shm0:i386 libxft2:i386 libxmu6:i386 libxp6:i386 libxtst6:i386
  odbcinst1debian2:i386 oss-compat xaw3dg:i386
0 upgraded, 107 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 22.6 MB of archives.
After this operation, 68.5 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y

Once that is up & done, simply give the installer one more try:

./forticlientsslvpn 
/usr/local/bin/forticlientsslvpn/.//helper//setup.linux.sh: line 11: \
/usr/local/bin/forticlientsslvpn/.//helper/forticlientsslvpn.install.log: Permission denied
/usr/local/bin/forticlientsslvpn/.//helper//setup.linux.sh: line 12: \
xterm: command not found

It'll fail once again, because by default there is no xterm installed on Linux Mint MATE 13.
Edit the file setup.linux.sh, comment the line:

##      xterm -e "$0" 2

And add this line, just below the one commented:

        gnome-terminal -e "$0" 2

Then execute the installer:

./forticlientsslvpn

The first time you execute it there is a splash screen, the reason this thing wanted to use xterm.
After that there might be a menacing pop up informing the installation failed, but its crap, simply continue and be happy.