Prebuilt Packages

The following lists some official and 3rd party repositories with a NetworkManager-l2tp package, it also provides instructions (or links to instructions) on how to install.

• Fedora
• RHEL 8 and later
• RHEL 7 and CentOS 7
• Ubuntu
• Debian
• Arch Linux
• openSUSE

Fedora

Issue the following to install NetworkManager-l2tp and its GNOME companion package :

sudo dnf install NetworkManager-l2tp NetworkManager-l2tp-gnome

If you wish to switch from libreswan to strongswan for the IPsec support with this VPN plugin, first install strongswan and the uninstall libreswan:

sudo dnf install strongswan
sudo rpm -e libreswan

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and later

Install the EPEL repository.

Issue the following to install NetworkManager-l2tp and its GNOME companion package :

sudo dnf install NetworkManager-l2tp NetworkManager-l2tp-gnome

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and CentOS 7

Install the EPEL repository.

Issue the following to install NetworkManager-l2tp and its GNOME companion package :

sudo yum install NetworkManager-l2tp NetworkManager-l2tp-gnome

Ubuntu and Mint

Optionally add the PPA (which has newer versions of network-manager-l2tp packages) from :

• https://launchpad.net/~nm-l2tp/+archive/ubuntu/network-manager-l2tp

Issue the following to install network-manager-l2tp and its GNOME companion package :

sudo apt install network-manager-l2tp network-manager-l2tp-gnome

If you wish to switch from strongswan to libreswan for the IPsec support, issue:

sudo apt install libreswan

Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04, Mint 17 and 18

Add the PPA from :

• https://launchpad.net/~nm-l2tp/+archive/ubuntu/network-manager-l2tp

by running:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nm-l2tp/network-manager-l2tp
sudo apt update

Issue the following to install network-manager-l2tp and its GNOME companion package :

sudo apt install network-manager-l2tp network-manager-l2tp-gnome

With Ubuntu 16.04 and later, if you wish to switch from strongswan to libreswan for the IPsec support, issue:

sudo apt install libreswan

Debian

Debian 10 or later

Issue the following to install network-manager-l2tp and its GNOME companion package :

sudo apt install network-manager-l2tp network-manager-l2tp-gnome

If you wish to switch from strongswan to libreswan for the IPsec support, issue:

sudo apt install libreswan

Arch Linux

networkmanager-l2tp package can be found in the Arch community repository :

• https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/networkmanager-l2tp/

openSUSE

openSUSE Tumbleweed and openSUSE Leap 14.3 and later

Issue the following to install NetworkManager-l2tp and its GNOME companion package :

sudo zypper install NetworkManager-l2tp NetworkManager-l2tp-gnome