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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.

@DevopTux Your PKGBUILD works, but it still misses to pull extra/gtkmm3 and extra/webkit2gtk needed by the UI. Moreover, you missed the final "closed curl brace" (aka '}') from the script.

Here a PKGBUILD that I modified and works for now:

# Maintainer: Chiwan Park <chiwanpark@hotmail.com>

pkgname=pulse-secure
pkgver=9.1r12.0_b10247
pkgrel=2
pkgdesc='Pulse Connect Secure (PCS) Client'
arch=(x86_64)
license=(custom)
url='https://www.pulsesecure.net/'
depends=(gcc-libs libgnome-keyring openssl curl dbus libbsd)
install=${pkgname}.install
source=(EULA.txt)
source_x86_64=("https://gml.noaa.gov/aftp/user/cornwall/Pulse%20Client/ps-pulse-linux-9.1r13.1-b12971-64bit-installer.rpm")
md5sums=("261848a28201e5386ec4bf587473a48b")
md5sums_x86_64=("ecd8d38761284a31726b62c4fd31a5d2")
optdepends=('psmisc: for pulsesvc -K', 'gtkmm3: for pulseUi', 'webkit2gtk: for pulseUi')
conflicts=(pulse-connect-secure)

package() {
   install -Dm644 EULA.txt "$pkgdir"/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/EULA.txt

   for d in $(find opt/pulsesecure -type d); do
       install -dm755 "$d" "$pkgdir"/"$d";
   done
   for f in $(find opt/pulsesecure/bin -type f); do
       install -Dm755 "$f" "$pkgdir"/"$f";
   done
   for f in $(find opt/pulsesecure/lib -type f); do
       install -Dm755 "$f" "$pkgdir"/"$f";
   done
   for f in $(find opt/pulsesecure/resource -type f); do
       install -Dm644 "$f" "$pkgdir"/"$f";
   done
   install -Dm644 usr/share/man/man1/pulse.1.gz "$pkgdir"/usr/share/man/man1/pulse.1.gz

   # we move service unit file to /usr/lib/systemd/system due to pacman limitation
   install -Dm644 lib/systemd/system/pulsesecure.service "$pkgdir"/usr/lib/systemd/system/pulsesecure.service

   mkdir -p "$pkgdir"/usr/share/applications/ "$pkgdir"/usr/share/dbus-1/system.d/ "$pkgdir"/opt/pulsesecure/lib/JUNS/interfaces
   ln -s /opt/pulsesecure/resource/pulse.desktop "$pkgdir"/usr/share/applications/pulse.desktop
   ln -s /opt/pulsesecure/lib/JUNS/net.psecure.pulse.conf "$pkgdir"/usr/share/dbus-1/system.d/net.psecure.pulse.conf
   for f in $(find opt/pulsesecure/lib/JUNS/interfaces -type l); do
       ln -s $(readlink $f) "$pkgdir"/"$f" ;
   done

}

Seems like 9.1r12 is not online anymore.

==> ERROR: Failure while downloading https://gml.noaa.gov/aftp/user/cornwall/Pulse%20Client/ps-pulse-linux-9.1r12.0-b10247-64-bit-installer.rpm

Correct URL for r13 is https://gml.noaa.gov/aftp/user/cornwall/Pulse%20Client/ps-pulse-linux-9.1r13.0-b11723-64bit-installer.rpm

9.1R13 works even for 2FA. I had problems with repeated prompts of 2FA and no success with VPN connection with earlier versions. But did build 9.1R13 version, as suggested by bodograumann, and it worked.

Here is the version 9.1r13 provided by Uni Lübeck:

-pkgver=9.1r12.0_b10247
+pkgver=9.1r13.0_b11723

-source_x86_64=("https://gml.noaa.gov/aftp/user/cornwall/Pulse%20Client/ps-pulse-linux-9.1r12.0-b10247-64-bit-installer.rpm")
+source_x86_64=("https://www.itsc.uni-luebeck.de/fileadmin/files/software/datennetz/pulse/pulsesecure-9.1-R13.x86_64.rpm")

-md5sums_x86_64=('74f180159f742e138e166b3b8d7eb4d5')
+md5sums_x86_64=('3fe9029ef73592734c8d1fa2262440f9')

Please incorporate these changes.

Looks like there is already r13: https://help.ivanti.com/ps/help/en_US/PCS/9.1R13/rn/fixed_issues.htm

Does anyone know a download URL? :D

This is broken for me right now. It used to work, though.

need to add a tmpfiles.d entry to create /var/lib/pulsesecure/pulse so that the connection store works correctly

@nunopinheiro I found out a number of minor issue plus a major one.

The application is trying to access the CA store at "/etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/openssl/ca-bundle.trust.crt". My system has it in "/etc/ca-certificates/extracted/ca-bundle.trust.crt". I had to create /etc/pki and then add a couple of symlinks in there to make it compatible with what Pulse is expecting.

Second problem comes from the cef-browser cache and cookies. I had to manually clean it up under ~/.pulsesecure/cef. I removed "Cache", "Code Cache" directories as well as all ".org.chromium.Chromium*" and "Cookies" files.

@thecrow also spotteed another issue.

I just found this:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pulse_Connect_Secure#AUR

:-D

@Syzygianinfern0 You must create the /var/lib/pulsesecure/pulse/ directory which is where the connections are saved.