Forticlient VPN Ubuntu 22.04LTS

Hello People!.

Did anyone here get the forticlient vpn client to work on Ubuntu 22.04LTS ?.\

Attempting to use the 20.04 version on the website i run into dependency issues.

Is there any talk of official support ? or did you manually install the dependencies ?

I was able to install Forticlient in Ubuntu 22.04 using this official link from fortinet:

https://www.fortinet.com/support/product-downloads#vpn

At the bottom of the page is the option to download the .deb. In my case, it was downloaded: forticlient_vpn_7.2.2.0753_amd64.

Hope it helps :slight_smile:

Yes, have you downloaded the version from FortiCloud repos?

I downloaded the .deb from the support website. Same place you usually download fortigate’s images, but you select forticlient instead of FortiGate.

It just requires 3 libs you’ll have to install.
Seems to work fine.

The repos are pointing to 6.4, you can change the url for 7.0 but I prefered the direct .deb version, although upgrades won’t occur automatically.

Tested on 20.04 and 22.04

Forticlient 7.0 and 6.4 branch do not officially support ubuntu 22.04lts. For me the UI does not opens. Cli works fine. Officially checked with support on this.

I’ve installed forticlient 7.0.6 on my ubuntu 22.04 from their repo. Just used the ‘bionic’ tag in the ‘/etc/apt/sources.list.d/fortinet.list’. Works ok, but there is just a trial licence for the app, which is going to expire. I wish there is a working plugin for the network manager instead. The network-manager-fortisslvpn-gnome I tried allows me to connect to the vpn, but the traffick is flowing only between my computer and my company’s networks, with no access to the internet tho. You can also try openfortigui from the ubuntu’s repo.

Hey! Yes official support for GUI has been added since. Should be pretty straightforward now. Thanks for the comment

Do you mean the 22.04 version ? i cant find that on their site.
https://www.fortinet.com/support/product-downloads/linux

Using this link i only see 20, which doesnt work for me

What are the libraries that need to be installed?

sorry, have you got any updates on this?

20.04.4 LTS, I have downloaded it from my acc on support.fortinet.com

I had to manually install the dependency packages online, it works now.
might take some time until we get official support