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If you want to use old pulse-secure client 9.1r9, please download the following package.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_8tRA-T9vV08n_TpHqdcG5IvalxBuZ7_/view?usp=sharing

The rewritten pulse-secure client requires a service called 'pulsesecure'. Please enable and start the service before running the client.

ps-pulse-linux-22.7r3-b30227-installer.rpm is out, can you please update the build.

@Marduk, webkit2gtk and gtkmm3 are already listed in the optional dependencies. Note that there is another method (pulsesvc) to connect VPN without the GUI; thus, they are optional.

Under Plasma 6 (Endeavouros Neo)

for the GUI to launch , I needed to do :

sudo pacman -S webkit2gtk && sudo pacman -S gtkmm3

EDIT: Problem after I reboot(I enable pulsesecure.service at boot

After one successful try with pulse-secure(ui can be opened, VPN is connected), it stopped working today.

I made sure the pulsesecure.service is enabled

systemctl status pulsesecure
● pulsesecure.service - pulsesecure service Daemon
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/s
ystem/pulsesecure.service; enabled; preset: disabled)
     Active: active (running) since Tue 2024-09-03 10:29:24 EDT; 7min ago
 Invocation: 245b4c266d844afca87afdaf899ac4b3
   Main PID: 18231 (pulsesecure)
      Tasks: 1 (limit: 18714)
     Memory: 1.9M (peak: 3.4M)
        CPU: 1.765s
     CGroup: /system.slice/pulsesecure.service
             └─18231 /opt/pulsesecure/bin/pulsesecure

However, when I tried to open pulseUI, it won't start. Then I abort the current task with ctrl+c, it gave the following error:

DBUS api call failed with code: 2 - message:GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name is not activatable 

webkit2gtk and gtkmm3 are all installed

@Suma67 @chiwanpark I can both build the package manually with makepkg and download the source file directly via browser. Maybe the yay helper is part of the problem or your specific location / region gets blocked. Maybe try building the package without yay.

@Chiwanpark I sent you an email with a screen capture from the yay helper installation command to failure, specifically, the RPM file not being able to be downloaded. I went to the testing site and the https://descargas.grancanaria.com/Sistemas/PulseSecureClients test good. The only thing after this is the name of the file. So, has the file name changed? The script is pointing to ps-pulse-linux-22.7r2-b29103-installer.rpm Is this still correct? I truly appreciate your quick response to the previous comment. Thank you and kind regards, Suma67

@Suma67 I've unflagged this package because I can access the RPM package through the current URL. I confirmed the current package source is accessible from various regions. See https://semonto.com/tools/website-reachability-check?test=cca738bb42f09956 for details.

For the systemctl issue, you have to update the installed service via sudo systemctl daemon-reload or reboot to start the service. I'll add this description to script in next release.

Hmmm… can't reach this page descargas.grancanaria.com took too long to respond

nslookup descargas.grancanaria.com Server: ns0.local.university Address: xxx.yyy.0.66

Non-authoritative answer: Name: descargas.grancanaria.com Address: 212.64.180.75

I have flagged this package as out of date with additional information from the YAY output failing to retrieve the rpm package.

Although I can get the rpm package from the local university software downloads, after editing, the script failed the first attempt, then when it went through, failed to set up the service so that systemctl enable works but systemctl start does not.

Adding this lengthy comment, hoping Chiwanpark will see this, as it has been a few days since I flagged the package. Kind regards, Suma67

@archer97 Thanks for notification. I've updated the package to 22.7R2.

A new package is out, please update

https://descargas.grancanaria.com/Sistemas/PulseSecureClients/ps-pulse-linux-22.7r2-b29103-installer.rpm