Giving it a try; install issues.

[fwelland]

Hi, I've been doing CheckPoint from many many fedora versions for some time; every 6 months or so it gets harder and harder to deal with mainly because of the applet and browser stuff. I'd love to give this a try, but I get an install issue:

Command "/usr/bin/python2 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-l56eQ9/pycrypto/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-mBXhnI-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --user --prefix=" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-l56eQ9/pycrypto/

This also happens with pip3 too.

My environment is f28:
Linux weedeater 4.16.10-300.fc28.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon May 21 14:41:48 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux pip --version: pip 9.0.3 from /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages (python 2.7) python --version: Python 2.7.15 snx --help Check Point's Linux SNX build 800008061

Thanks in advance.

[schlatterbeck]

On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 05:10:37AM -0700, Fred Welland wrote:

Command "/usr/bin/python2 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-l56eQ9/pycrypto/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-mBXhnI-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --user --prefix=" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-l56eQ9/pycrypto/

This is an error when you're trying to install the dependency pycrypto. I'm not familiar enough with the python setup on fedory and the error message just tells us that it failed with an error code.

Maybe you can get some assistance installing pycrypto on fedora and report back on how you solved it?

Maybe you need some python development packages installed, pycrypto tries to compile native code and that needs a C-Compiler. But as said, this is just a guess.

Thanks Ralf -- Dr. Ralf Schlatterbeck Tel: +43/2243/26465-16 Open Source Consulting www: http://www.runtux.com Reichergasse 131, A-3411 Weidling email: office@runtux.com

[fwelland]

Wow. Awesome. Thanks for getting back so quickly!!! Not really a python guy, but I did this:

pip install --user pycrypto

And got the same error. Soo, this is where I went:

dnf install pycryptopp python2-pycryptodomex python3-pycryptodomex --installs pycrpto at system level. or so I thought. While that installed didn't really change anything.

Looked closely at error message again I saw missing 'GMP' stuff. So I did:

dnf install gmp-devel (FWIW: dnf is fedora's package install and manager (aka YUM))

Then I redid: pip install --user snxvpn

Much further, but still an error with pycrypto. Issue related to gcc and redhat-hardened-cc1. That was fixed by: dnf install redhat-rpm-config

But then no include file for 'Python.h' (also gcc error). That is fixed by: dnf install python-devel

now

pip install --user snxvpn

Succeeds!!!

WooHoo. Thanks for the pointers. Now, I will replay this on my laptop (did on my f28 workstation, which is on my work lan, which is really the target I was to SSL/SNX VPN to...) AND then see if I can 'snxconnect'.

Thanks!!!

More svlete inststructions:

as sudo or root: dnf install redhat-rpm-config gmp-devel python-devel

then: pip install --user snxvpn

More news if I get this this to work!!!