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L2TP and L2TP/IPsec support for NetworkManager
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Error when Installing l2tp by ppa #41

Closed JackieTseng closed 7 years ago

JackieTseng commented 7 years ago

Hi, I used the ppa method to install and got this error when I create L2TP.

Could not create connection
Could not load editor VPN plugin for 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.l2tp' (missing plugin file "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/NetworkManager/libnm-vpn-plugin-l2tp-edito...").

According to this error, I try the following commands though still not working either.

sudo apt install network-manager-dev libnm-util-dev libnm-glib-dev libnm-glib-vpn-dev libnm-gtk-dev libnm-dev

What should I do? Thanks!

dkosovic commented 7 years ago

Those *-dev packages are just for building from source code, you shouldn't need them for the PPA packages.

Which Ubuntu version, 32 or 64bit? I assume 64 bit. From one of the error messages, sounds like the following file never got packaged up:

/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/NetworkManager/libnm-vpn-plugin-l2tp-editor.so

Once I know which Ubuntu version you are using, I'll try and reproduce.

JackieTseng commented 7 years ago

@dkosovic My version is Ubuntu 16.04, 64bit

dkosovic commented 7 years ago

That missing libnm-vpn-plugin-l2tp-editor.so file is owned by the network-manager-l2tp-gnome package as confirmed by the following :

$ dpkg -S /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/NetworkManager/libnm-vpn-plugin-l2tp-editor.so
network-manager-l2tp-gnome: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/NetworkManager/libnm-vpn-plugin-l2tp-editor.so

I've had one GNOME user that had to restart GNOME Shell for it to pickup the plug-in. I wasn't able to reproduce using Unity.

Is there any difference if you run /usr/bin/nm-connection-editor directly on the command-line?

JackieTseng commented 7 years ago

@dkosovic I am using ubuntu 16.04 LTS. By running the command you provide, I get this

jackie@jackie-pc:~$ /usr/bin/nm-connection-editor 
Gtk-Message: GtkDialog mapped without a transient parent. This is discouraged.

and a Network Connections Window

dkosovic commented 7 years ago

I meant to say in addition, with /usr/bin/nm-connection-editor are you then able to add a L2TP VPN connection ?

Is the network-manager-l2tp-gnome package actually installed? It contains the missing /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/NetworkManager/libnm-vpn-plugin-l2tp-editor.so file.

JackieTseng commented 7 years ago

@dkosovic Ah-ha, I reinstall network-manager-l2tp-gnome package, and this time L2TP works! Thanks!