Openvpn Client And KDE Network Manager – With CentOS7

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Hi All,

I am switching from Fedora20 to CentOS7 since I now run all my Linux development in a VM and I get a more robust feature set (i.e. shared folders with the host that “just work”, etc)

The only issue I have thus far is VPN connections. Looking at what’s installed on my old Fedora install I suspect I need these packages:

kde-plasma-nm-vpnc kde-plasma-nm-openvpn NetworkManager-openvpn NetworkManager-vpnc

However none of these are available in CentOS7, Note I have the CentOS
extras and the EPEL repos enabled. I suspect that I need rpmfusion but I don’t see that rpmfusion has a repo for CentOS7…

Anyone have any thoughts? Can I simply install the CentOS6 rpmfusion repo?

Thanks in advance

4 thoughts on - Openvpn Client And KDE Network Manager – With CentOS7

  • The OpenVPN packages are in epel, and the vpnc packages are in the Nux Desktop repo.

    NetworkManager-openvpn.x86_64
    1:0.9.8.2-4.el7.1

    @epel

    NetworkManager-vpnc.x86_64

    1:0.9.9.0-6.git20140428.el7.nux
    nux-dextop

    Nope. This would make bad things happen.

  • I’ve installed the following packages:

    /# rpm -qa | egrep ‘vpn|NetworkManager’
    NetworkManager-vpnc-0.9.9.0-6.git20140428.el7.nux.x86_64
    NetworkManager-glib-0.9.9.1-28.git20140326.4dba720.el7_0.2.x86_64
    NetworkManager-openvpn-0.9.8.2-4.el7.1.x86_64
    vpnc-script-0.5.3-22.svn457.el7.noarch NetworkManager-0.9.9.1-28.git20140326.4dba720.el7_0.2.x86_64
    openvpn-2.3.2-4.el7.x86_64
    NetworkManager-tui-0.9.9.1-28.git20140326.4dba720.el7_0.2.x86_64
    vpnc-0.5.3-22.svn457.el7.x86_64/

    However if I click the KDE Network Manager and then click “Manage Connections”
    the manage connections dialog box / control module that comes up has the
    “Add” button greyed out for VPN connections

    Anyone have any ideas how to enable the ability to add a VPN connection?

    Thanks in advance

  • All;

    Anyone have any thoughts, any assistance debugging this? I still cannot get a VPN connection in KDE…

    Thanks in advance