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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.

@abyss02

To resolve the certificate warning, pulsesecure will look for the certificate authorities in the path /etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/openssl, add the symbolic link:

/etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/openssl/ca-bundle.trust.crt -> /etc/ca-certificates/extracted/ca-bundle.trust.crt

The connections are saved in /var/lib/pulsesecure/pulse, you have to create the directory so that pulsesecure can save them and they are not lost when restarting the service.

Ok, installed the new 9.1R11 and ran systemctl enable pulsesecure && systemctl start pulsesecure - afterwards restarted arch:

So,

1. pulseUI works
2. adding a connection works
3. connecting works

but ...

1. i always get a cert warning, although i imported the needed ca with trust anchor an so on ... (but this is probably my problem)

BUT ...

1. if the pulsesecure.service is restarted, the gui looses all the connections ... that is weird.

Any ideas?

Regards, A.

@chiwanpark thanks for keeping the old package available at least through drive. I can't use new versions if they keep depending on systemd. I notice the service just calls another script, and I tried:

sudo /opt/pulsesecure/bin/startup.sh start

To then execute:

/opt/pulsesecure/bin/pulseUI

But even by doing so, I can't add new connections, neither connect...

If someone finds a way to make pulse-secure work without systemd, please let me know. It might require several calls, as I was trying, no problem... Not sure if I'd need to call some dbus stuff, which I'm not familiar with...

For now I need to keep using the old 9.1.r9 version with the curl-pulse-secure package...

@abyss02 I've updated the package to new version 9.1r11. It seems that the curl problem disappears. However, the host checker still does not work properly.

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.

@je-vv, you could probably make it work without systemd. The systemd control file makes a call to a simple shell script with "do_start" and "do_stop" functions to run/kill a binary, so I expect it could be made compatible with non-systemd systems.

Hey there, there is a new version 9.1R11 with this changelog:

https://www-prev.pulsesecure.net/download/techpubs/current/2267/pulse-client/pulse-secure-client-desktop/9.1Rx/ps-pulse-9.1r11.0-releasenotes.pdf?download=true

It can be downloaded here: https://www.rz.uni-osnabrueck.de/fileadmin/user_upload/VPN/Software/ps-pulse-linux-9.1r11.0-b6725-64-bit-installer.rpm

Seems that they had some issues with host checker.

Will you give it another try? Or could you please provide the PKGBUILD of your 9.1R10-Package?

Regards, A.

I downloaded the latest version 9.1R11, after manually copying the files over version 9.1R10, the VPN is established, it already works with curl 7.75.

@treizeku, you moved way back, to 9.1r8.0_b165 actually, while current version is 9.1r9.0_b255. Those old versions don't require any service, you just call the pulsesvc for command line or you just call the pulseUI binary for the gui... That was the old model... However not sure why 9.1r9.0_b255 is not working for you. I'd guess the really new one, on the GDrive provided by @chiwanpark is the one having some future, and it's pending solving some issues prior to releasing, but not so bright at least for me, since it depends on loading a systemd service it seems...

Ran into the same problem as most people. The package stopped working after the latest upgrade. I tried a lot of different things, including the experimental package of the latest version by @chiwanpark, but I also couldn't get it to work. The main problem was that it was not able to create the virtual interface for some reason.

I did however got my VPN to work again by downgrading back to an older package, even though it didn't work at first. I think a reboot fixed it. So for people who really need to get it to work:

• Install curl-pulse-secure
• Go to https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/commit/?h=pulse-secure&id=c9ac3238950d4c3af5481fa2259c04c21149f6ca
• Click download to download the tar gz of that commit version
• Unzip and run makepkg in the extracted folder to build the old version
• Install the built package with sudo pacman -U pulse-secure-xxxxx.tar.zst

After that maybe reboot to be sure but that version works again for me. Not sure if the curl-pulse-secure libraries are still necessary with this. I don't need to start any service or anything.