Linux Cisco Anyconnect Secure Mobility Client Installation and Use

Linux Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client Installation and Use

Tested with default installations of the listed distributions below. Cisco officially supports RHEL 5 and 6 and Ubuntu 9.x and 10.x. Users can type uname -a at the command line if they are unsure which distribution they have installed.

Download:

Download anyconnect-linux.tar.gz (32-bit machines) or anyconnect-linux-64.tar.gz (64-bit machines) from the MyBama Tech Tab.

Installation:

Ubuntu 14.04, Debian 7.6.0

tar -xzf anyconnect-*.tar.gz

cd anyconnect*/vpn

sudo ./vpn_install.sh

Accept the terms of the license agreement.

Linux Mint 16

tar -xzf anyconnect-*.tar.gz

cd anyconnect*/vpn

sudo ./vpn_install.sh

Accept the terms of the license agreement.

CentOS 7

Enable EPEL Repository (at your own risk):

wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/beta/7/x86_64/epel-release-7-0.2.noarch.rpm

sudo rpm -ivh epel-release-7-0.2.noarch.rpm

Install libpangox with sudo yum install pangox-compat pangox-devel

tar -xzf anyconnect-*.tar.gz

cd anyconnect*/vpn

sudo ./vpn_install.sh

Accept the terms of the license agreement.

Fedora Core 20

Install libpangox with sudo yum install pangox-compat pangox-devel

tar -xzf anyconnect-*.tar.gz

cd anyconnect*/vpn

sudo ./vpn_install.sh

Accept the terms of the license agreement.

OpenSuSE 13.1

Install libpangox with sudo zypper install pangox-compat libpangox-1_0-0 pangox-devel

tar -xzf anyconnect-*.tar.gz

cd anyconnect*/vpn

sudo ./vpn_install.sh

Accept the terms of the license agreement.

SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2

Download anyconnect-linux.tar.gz or anyconnect-linux-64.tar.gz

tar -xzf anyconnect-*.tar.gz

cd anyconnect*/vpn

sudo ./vpn_install.sh

Accept the terms of the license agreement.

General Steps for other distributions (These distributions are not supported)

Ensure that libpangox is installed.

tar -xzf anyconnect-*.tar.gz

cd anyconnect*/vpn

sudo ./vpn_install.sh

Accept the terms of the license agreement.

Running and Connecting:

The Cisco AnyConnect client tends to install itself in the “Internet” section of any distribution's application manager. Most modern distributions include a search function that will find it as well. You may also run it manually by running /opt/cisco/anyconnect/bin/vpnui

Type uavpn.ua.edu/campus in the “Connect to:” box and click Connect

You may be asked to accept a certificate, click Yes or Accept

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