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Unfortunately, I don't have access to a version newer than 4.10.06079 yet. If there is someone who can help with the update package - please let me know - I'll add to the co-maintainers.

As the comment in the PKGBUILD says (you've read it, right? ;) ), Cisco does not provide public downloads for this, so you have to obtain the installer yourself either through your own Cisco account or through your company's.

Here you can download the latest version of the archive https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3515431

This package is obsolete since cisco-anyconnect has been replaced by cisco-secure-client. The corresponding AUR package is: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cisco-secure-client, which does not require authentication from Cisco for download and can simply be installed normally.

I have no idea why, but this version no longer works when compiling directly into ArchLinux. Service 'vpnagentd' does not work.

I've edited the fork I got from @ariel-miculas to:

1) "Comment" the lines I had added (old glib2, icu and libxml2) and also the workaround I did at the end of PKGBUILD.

2) Update the Cisco Secureclient version to "5.1.3.62"

On Archlinux I finally managed to get the "vpnagentd" service to work... But that's it... The app didn't open.
In Manjaro everything worked 100% and I even completely removed the ArchLinux application, copied the version I compiled in Manjaro and installed it on ArchLinux... It also worked 100%

Tested systems:

manjaro-kde-23.1.4-240406-linux66 (Fully updated 24.05.05):  
Linux manjaro-vm 6.6.26-1-MANJARO #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed Apr 10 20:11:08 UTC 2024 x86_64 GNU/Linux  

archlinux-2024.02.01-x86_64 (Fully updated 24.05.05):  
Linux archlinux 6.8.9-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu, 02 May 2024 17:49:46 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux  

Images of the tests in order:

1) IMG Info Arch/Manjaro
2) IMG SystemD Arch/Manjaro
3) IMG Test Arch
4) IMG Test Manjaro
5) IMG Test App version Manjaro in ArchLinux

• Observation:

For this version of Cisco (5.1.3.62), it was **NOT** necessary to do workarounds such as adding libxml2 2.11.5-1 or configuring variables.  
I just compiled it and it worked.  

On Cisco's website, it's already on version "4.10.08029", wasn't it time to update the version of this package?

https://www.cisco.com/c/pt_br/support/security/anyconnect-secure-mobility-client/series.html#~tab-downloads

Link para Download aqui: anyconnect-linux64-4.10.08029-predeploy-k9.tar.gz

Atualizei meu PKGBUILD, mas é bom alguem aqui testar

@nrw apologize for this late reply, to the best of my knowledge, I have tried the following commands to setting that variable:

$ set WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER=1 
$ cisco-anyconnect   

(com.cisco.anyconnect.gui:17001): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 09:18:57.605: gtk_widget_get_scale_factor: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

$ export WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER=1
$ cisco-anyconnect  

(com.cisco.anyconnect.gui:22553): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 09:19:57.020: gtk_widget_get_scale_factor: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

$ WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER=1 cisco-anyconnect

(com.cisco.anyconnect.gui:32996): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 09:23:46.497: gtk_widget_get_scale_factor: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

But seems none of them work in this case.

Just for reference, when I tried to use the following command GDK_BACKEND=x11 cisco-anyconnect to force using x11 backend, that error disappeared. But it just pop up a black window and crash after a few seconds

@howcanoewang have you tried set WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER=1 ?

The client seems can not launch on Manajaro KDE wayland, it raises the following error

$ cisco-anyconnect 

(com.cisco.anyconnect.gui:3273081): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 16:58:05.820: gtk_widget_get_scale_factor: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

Any ideas or solutions to handle such problem?

Thank you @jtbwatson! After i manualy launched vpnagentd it started to work!

This does not work on the latest versions of arch (I use manjaro kde). To run it, you need to:

Build libxml 2.11

#!/bin/bash

mkdir build-tmp
cd build-tmp
wget https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/libxml2/-/raw/ecf5ca6e9705848a4220411214d5a6bff63d18eb/PKGBUILD
wget https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/libxml2/-/raw/2.11.5-1/0001-HACK-Don-t-run-fuzzing-tests.patch
makepkg
cd ..
cp ./build-tmp/pkg/libxml2/usr/lib/libxml2.so.2.11.5 .
cp ./build-tmp/pkg/libxml2/usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 .
rm -rf build-tmp

Run using the compiled Libxml2 and WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER

#!/bin/bash

script_dir="$(dirname "$0")"
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$script_dir:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER=1 /opt/cisco/anyconnect/bin/vpnui