plasma-nm and openconnect

lioh · 02-22-2021, 01:32 PM

Hi all,

I am on latest -current with Plasma. I wanted to use plasma-nm with openconnect, so I have installed openconnect and NetworkManager-openconnect from the AlienBOB repository. Sadly it still complains that it cannot find a VPN plugin. If I remember correctly, in ktown plasma-nm has been compiled against openconnect in order to make it work.

My question is how I can get this back running on -current?

Greetings
Lioh

bassmadrigal · 02-24-2021, 01:04 AM

With a quick look through of plasma-nm's CMakeList.txt, I don't think you need to do anything other than rebuild plasma-nm with openconnect installed.

You would need to have the source directory for kde/ saved locally from a mirror (I prefer to keep the entire -current tree mirrored to my system using Alien Bob's mirror-slackware-current.sh script)and then go into the source/kde/kde directory and (as root) run:

Code:

sh kde.SlackBuild plasma:plasma-nm

and then upgradepkg --reinstall the new package (you would need the --reinstall option unless you change the build number under build/plasma-nm from 1 to 2).

If you don't want to mirror everything (since it takes a lot of space), I think you'd need the following, at a minimum:

Code:

kde
|-- build
|   `-- plasma-nm
|-- cmake
|   `-- cmake
|-- kde.SlackBuild
|-- kde.options
|-- modules
|   |-- all-packaged-applications
|   `-- plasma
|-- noarch
|-- nomake
|-- nostrip
|-- package-blacklist
|-- slack-desc
|   `-- plasma-nm
`-- src
    `-- plasma
        |-- plasma-nm-5.21.0.tar.xz
        `-- plasma-nm-5.21.0.tar.xz.sig

AkileoSlackware · 05-06-2021, 09:47 AM

lioh,

I am also using Slackware64-current. In my case I had to repackage plasma5-nm-openconnect with the help from rworkman's SlackBuild found here: https://github.com/philipvdh/slackbu...nm-openconnect and use the latest version from https://github.com/KDE/plasma-nm/releases
I did have to edit lines 26 and 133

Line 26:
VERSION=${VERSION:-5.21.5}

Line 133:
#cp -a COPYING* README $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION

I hope this helps you get back up and running with openconnect on Slackware64-current

greef · 05-31-2023, 12:39 PM

Hi,

old thread, but google led me here.

I'm on 64-current and did as AkileoSlackware suggested, though using different version (5.27.5) and source for downloads.

I used the slackbuild that is available for Slackware 14.2, and downloaded the source from here:
https://src.fedoraproject.org/repo/p...5.27.5.tar.xz/

Worked fine for me.