Alternative to Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client in Ubuntu 16.04

wei zhang
wei zhang
Aug 22, 2017 · 1 min read

I reinstall my laptop with Ubuntu 16.04 and found the linux version of Cisco AnyConnect is not working any more, by a quick google search, the alternative is

sudo /sbin/modprobe tun

sudo apt-get install openconnect

sudo openconnect yourvpn.com

Did not search for detail, but put a note here for future self refreence.

Set proxy for apt-get

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptGet/Howto

Install Java8 on ubuntu

1, download

2,create a folder to extract the tar.gz

3, define JAVA_HOME=the folder, in my case it’s

echo $JAVA_HOME
/opt/java/jdk1.8.0_144

Install eclipse

1 download

2, create a folder to exact the tar.gz

3 simlink a eclipse in /usr/local/bin if needed

4 sudo update-alternatives — config java

select the one you want, in this case java8 se

Install cpptest

1, check g++ is installed

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install build-essential

2, cd cpptest-1.1.2/

$ ./configure

$ make

$ sudo make install.

3. test code

pip problem:

TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for -=: ‘Retry’ and ‘int’

apt-get remove python-pip python3-pip
wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
python get-pip.py
python3 get-pip.py
now pip instal working:
pip install jupyter
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