[CentOS] openvpn client and KDE Network Manager - with CentOS7

Mon Dec 8 18:26:29 UTC 2014
CS DBA <cs_dba at consistentstate.com>

On 10/29/14 12:24 PM, CS DBA wrote:
>
> On 10/27/14 2:20 PM, Jim Perrin wrote:
>> On 10/27/2014 01:13 PM, CS DBA wrote:
>>> 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...
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> Anyone have any thoughts? Can I simply install the centos6 rpmfusion repo?
>> 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