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1. Download the package installer to the Linux client.
   • Visit the Pulse Secure Client page in the UConn Software Catalog to choose your download. 
2. Run the installer using the commands below. For example, if the Pulse Linux client is saved in /$HOME/downloads on Ubuntu, then the command would be: Sudo dpkg -i /$HOME/downloads/Pulse-linux-9.1r2.0-x64.deb. 
   1. For Debian-based Linux installation (such as Ubuntu): sudo dpkg -i <package name>
   2. For RPM-based Linux installation (such as CentOS): sudo rpm -ivh <package name>
3. The script will prompt the user to install any missing dependent packages if they are not already installed.
   
   1. For example, you may get a message similar to the one below:
      Please execute below commands to install missing dependent packages manually:
      apt-get install lib32z1
      apt-get install libc6-i386
      apt-get install libwebkitgtk-1.0-0:i386
      apt-get install libproxy1:i386
      apt-get install libproxy1-plugin-gsettings:i386
      apt-get install libproxy1-plugin-webkit:i386
      apt-get install libdconf1:i386
      apt-get install dconf-gsettings-backend:i386
   2. Alternatively, you may get a message similar to the one below:
      You can install the missing dependency packages by running the below script:
      sudo /usr/local/pulse/PulseClient_x86_64.sh install_dependency_packageslibnss3-tools is a pre-requisite and will need to be installed before you can install the Pulse Secure Client.  You will prompted to install it, if it is missing.

Launching the Pulse Secure Client 

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1. Locate Pulse Secure in the list of installed applications.
2. Create a new connection to vpn.uconn.edu.
   
3. Click Connect, next to New Entry.
4. Enter your UConn NetID and password to authenticate. 

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If you experience an issue where the Pulse Client UI will not launch you may need to load an additional library to correct it.  Please follow these additional steps to load the missing library.

Open a terminal window and perform the following commands.

sudo add-apt-repository 'deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic main universe'

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Once completed you should be able to continue with launching the Pulse UI

Launching Pulse Secure Client via CLI

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1. Open a new terminal window.
2. Enter the root shell:
   ~$ sudo –i
   [sudo] password for username: password

3. Use the command below to launch the VPN client, substituting NetID with your UConn NetID in lowercase: 
   root@:~#/usropt/localpulsesecure/pulsebin/pulsesvc pulselauncher -h U vpn.uconn.edu -u NetID –r UConn
   

   Note
   This command is case sensitive and will only work as entered here.

   
   

4. You will be prompted for a VPN Password. Enter your NetID password. It will not be displayed or saved.
5. After the VPN tunnel is created successfully, the terminal window will remain blank and must remain open.  If the terminal window is closed, this will close the VPN connection.
6. You can check the status of the connection by opening a new terminal window and using the following method:
   :~$ ifconfig
   tun0 Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
   inet addr:13767.99221.17068.78  214  P-t-P:13767.99221.17067.78  Mask:255.255.254255.0555
   UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1400  Metric:1
   RX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
   TX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
   collisions:0 txqueuelen:500
   RX bytes:560 (560.0 B)  TX bytes:299 (299.0 B)

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