How To Install openfortivpn on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install openfortivpn on Fedora 34.
What is openfortivpn
openfortivpn is a client for PPP+SSL VPN tunnel services. It spawns a pppd process and operates the communication between the gateway and this process. It is compatible with Fortinet VPNs.
We can use yum or dnf to install openfortivpn on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install openfortivpn.
Install openfortivpn on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install openfortivpn using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install openfortivpn
Install openfortivpn on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install openfortivpn using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install openfortivpn
How To Uninstall openfortivpn on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the openfortivpn package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove openfortivpn
openfortivpn Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/openfortivpn
/etc/openfortivpn/config
/usr/bin/openfortivpn
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/56
/usr/lib/.build-id/56/8d3564f2263d75b0f511784bd96bf1a8c5b3f0
/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
/usr/share/doc/openfortivpn
/usr/share/doc/openfortivpn/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/openfortivpn
/usr/share/licenses/openfortivpn/LICENSE
/usr/share/licenses/openfortivpn/LICENSE.OpenSSL
/usr/share/man/man1/openfortivpn.1.gz
/usr/share/openfortivpn
/usr/share/openfortivpn/config.template
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install openfortivpn on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.