Building

The README.md file in the source code provides some examples for configure script arguments for a number of Linux distributions. This page will show all the steps required primarily for Ubuntu 16.04 (and later) to build and install NetworkManager-l2tp, although it also has notes that are interspersed that are applicable for other Linux distributions or versions.

Note: the backslash character \ that appears in the below examples is the shell line continuation character and is safe to copy and paste to the command-line.

• Prerequisites
• Obtain the source code
• Configuration
• Building
• Installation

Prerequisites

Issue the following on the command-line to install the prerequisite build-time and run-time packages :

sudo apt install \
git \
intltool \
libtool \
network-manager-dev \
libnm-util-dev \
libnm-glib-dev \
libnm-glib-vpn-dev \
libnm-gtk-dev \
libnm-dev \
libnma-dev \
ppp-dev \
libdbus-glib-1-dev \
libsecret-1-dev \
libgtk-3-dev \
libglib2.0-dev \
xl2tpd \
strongswan

Note: libnma is only available and needed on NetworkManager 1.2 and later based Linux distributions.

Obtain the source code

We'll use Git to obtain the latest copy of the source code and then cd into the top level directory (which the subsequent examples assume) :

git clone https://github.com/nm-l2tp/network-manager-l2tp.git
cd network-manager-l2tp.git

Note: if you are using a NetworkManager 0.9 or 1.0 based Linux distribution, switch to the nm-1-0 branch with the following:

git checkout nm-1-0 

Configuration

As mentioned in the README.md file, issue the following for Ubuntu or Debian:

./autogen.sh
./configure \
  --disable-static --prefix=/usr \
  --sysconfdir=/etc --libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu \
  --libexecdir=/usr/lib/NetworkManager \
  --localstatedir=/var \
  --with-pppd-plugin-dir=/usr/lib/pppd/2.4.7

Note: if you are using 32bit Linux, remove --libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu from the above.

Building

Issue the following :

make

Installation

Issue the following :

sudo make install