Installing Aventail VPN (and Sun Java6) on Ubuntu 10.04
Posted by Mike on May 1st, 2010
The Aventail VPN client requires Sun Java to correctly function on Ubuntu. For whatever reason, the OpenJDK is not sufficient, and the client exhibits numerous bugs. Unfortunately, for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Canonical decided to move Sun Java to the partner repository. It’s no-longer apt-get-able by default.
No worries, we can easily add the parter repository, then install Sun Java.
sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ lucid partner" sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre
Once completed, the Aventail VPN installation can proceed.
tar xf AventailConnect-Linux.tar sudo ./install.sh
If you did attempt to install Aventail using the OpenJDK, you’ll need to uninstall it and re-install after installing Sun Java. See /usr/local/Aventail/uninstall.sh.
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May 10th, 2010 at 11:17 am
The above alone did not fix it for me. I run Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit. On suggestion from other forums I installed Sun 32-bit java (under 64-bit ubuntu, and yes, Sun not OpenJDK). That fixed it for me.
Specifically the package ia32-sun-java6-bin and its many dependencies for 32-bit compatibility under 64-bit linux.
Hope this helps someone.
June 11th, 2010 at 11:47 am
There is a Linux 64 bit Aventail client now. I haven’t tried it myself yet. DePaul University has it posted on their downloads page.