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
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 uninstall libreswan then install strongswan:
sudo rpm -e libreswan
sudo dnf install strongswan
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and CentOS 7
Install the EPEL repository which on CentOS can be done by running the following:
sudo yum install epel-release
or on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 by running the following :
wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
sudo rpm -Uvh epel-release-latest-7*.rpm
Issue the following to install NetworkManager-l2tp and its GNOME companion package :
sudo yum install NetworkManager-l2tp NetworkManager-l2tp-gnome
Ubuntu and Mint
Ubuntu 17.10 and 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
Ubuntu 14.04, 16.04 and 17.04, Mint 17.x and 18.x
Add the PPA from :
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 Sid
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 Arch User Repository (AUR) :
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
Note: NetworkManager-l2tp 1.0.8 is the latest version for NetworkManager 0.9.8 or 1.0 based Linux distributions.