Connecting to your workplace with Cisco AnyConnect on 64bit Fedora 12

One thing that many users need is the ability to connect to their workplace via VPN. Typically, the standard tool for establishing VPN connections is Cisco AnyConnect VPN client.

Most of the required libraries are not installed by default in Fedora 12, so the client neither installs nor works properly out of the box.

The following simple procedure will prepare your 64 bit FC 12 installation for the AnyConnect client installation.

This procedure assumes that you are currently working in a root shell, and the AnyConnect client (vpn-setup.sh) is downloaded to ~/Downloads.

yum install nss-3.12.5-8.fc12.i686 nspr-4.8.2-1.fc12.i686 libxml2-2.7.6-1.fc12.i686 gtk2-2.18.3-19.fc12.i686 atk-1.28.0-1.fc12.i686

mkdir -p /usr/local/firefox
cd /usr/local/firefox/
ln -s /usr/lib/libnss3.so
ln -s /lib/libplc4.so
ln -s /lib/libnspr4.so
ln -s /usr/lib/libsmime3.so

cd ~/Downloads
./vpn-setup.sh

You should find the Cisco AnyConnect client icon in your Internet menu.