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VPN Options on Kali Linux (GNOME)
Following is what you will see when you press the +Add button on VPN tab.
Use the drop down menu to get more supported VPN Connection Types:
In total, you got 4 supported VPN Connections types on Kali Linux:
- Cisco Compatible (vpnc)
- IPsec/IKEv2 (strongswan)
- OpenVPN
- Point-to-point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP)
Conclusion
VPN is good, VPN is secure, VPN allows you to bypass proxies, Firewall, monitoring and content filtering. But there’s always that drama when you’re using VPN, it sometime is slow and sometime is not that secure you’d think. But for countries like Iran, Pakistan, Egypt, China, North Korea etc. where content filtering is done in National Level maybe it’s a way to get the voice out. I am not going to discuss legality here, so I will leave that to you.
A complete guide on how to setup VPN on Kali Linux was added. Don’t forget to check that.
I also got a list of VPN providers that I’ve tested and collected over the years, some are really fast and reliable, some are not. Some are free and some are expensive. Let me know if you want a more in detailed guide to setup VPN and actually show you how to browse using it, and I can do it when I am free. You can also tell us about your setup in comments section and I will be happy to include them in this guide or a new one.
Thanks again for reading. Please share and RT.
i would absolutely appreciate you doing a detailed guide to setup vpn PlZ do if u can and thank you 4 all your help
apt-get install network-manager-openvpn-gnome
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Package network-manager-openvpn-gnome is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package ‘network-manager-openvpn-gnome’ has no installation candidate
plz provide the solution
i am also having the same prob like fasi plz help i had also noticed it is giving same error when i try to install “chkconfig” PLZ help
Thanks for the guide!
that didn’t work i keep getting errors as follows
No candidate version found for network-manager-openvpn-gnome
Couldn’t find any package whose name or description matched “network-manager-p”
Couldn’t find package “ptp”. However, the following
packages contain “ptp” in their name:
thc-pptp-bruter
No candidate version found for network-manager-pptp-gnome
No candidate version found for network-manager-strongswan
No candidate version found for network-manager-vpnc
No candidate version found for network-manager-vpnc-gnome
No candidate version found for network-manager-openvpn-gnome
Couldn’t find any package whose name or description matched “network-manager-p”
Couldn’t find package “ptp”. However, the following
packages contain “ptp” in their name:
thc-pptp-bruter
No candidate version found for network-manager-pptp-gnome
No candidate version found for network-manager-strongswan
No candidate version found for network-manager-vpnc
No candidate version found for network-manager-vpnc-gnome
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
Dustin,
You’re not paying attention. The actual command to use is:
You are also missing repositories. Fix those.
-BMO
same thing doesnt work even when i copy and paste yours
i learned a lot from you tutorials thank you :)
i would appreciate if you could write a bit more about VPNs and to anonymously and securely surf the net
hello..im after trying this but vpn tab cannot enable, why?
the installation is complete
\
Not working
No candidate version found for network-manager-openvpn-gnome
No candidate version found for network-manager-pptp
No candidate version found for network-manager-pptp-gnome
No candidate version found for network-manager-strongswan
No candidate version found for network-manager-vpnc
No candidate version found for network-manager-vpnc-gnome
No candidate version found for network-manager-openvpn-gnome
No candidate version found for network-manager-pptp
No candidate version found for network-manager-pptp-gnome
No candidate version found for network-manager-strongswan
No candidate version found for network-manager-vpnc
No candidate version found for network-manager-vpnc-gnome
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
for saudi arabia too :)
I find a solution in this web site: http://www.kali-linux.fr/configuration/installer-open-vpn-sous-kali-linux i think that we need to updated deposit sources of GNU / Linux packages
it’s fine , but the next stpes please
how to configure openvpn
After i ran the command it now only boots me into terminal and i don’t know how to return to GUI can you help?
After Doing the ( aptitude -r install network-manager-openvpn-gnome network-manager-pptp network-manager-pptp-gnome network-manager-strongswan network-manager-vpnc network-manager-vpnc-gnome ) my network manager shut down , i rebooted and there was no gui i was booted to tty1 when i used startx there was no desktop environment ( i also tried tt7 same issue ) , then installed a different desktop environment and still network icon ( next to keyboard layout ) and sound icon disappeared
What Should I Do ??
Found a fix
apt-get install network-manager network-manager-gnome
Sorry For The Disturbance
I had the same problem, this solution fixed it, except that I had to startx manually.
If you want to have Kali to boot on the GUI automatically, you should also
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade -y
apt-get install -f gdm3
Hi there,
I’d really appreciate the list that you offered of VPN providers, specially the free ones.
Thaks in advanced.
Regards
I am thinking about it, keep an eye on here for updates.
Hi, First thank you very much for your awesome tutorials, I almost daily visitor now! How did you get to to this desktop information on the right side ? Thanks
Thanks! That worked without effort. I’ll go and configure openVPN now.
BTW: Proxy.sh seems to be a great VPN provider – not very expensive, and they have instructions for how to set up openVPN (and others) for Linux on their site.
worked fine for me thanks for the fix!!!!!
When I do this , I get the following:
aptitude -r install network-manager-openvpn-gnome network-manager-pptp network-manager-pptp-gnome network-manager-strongswan network-manager-vpnc network-manager-vpnc-gnome
The following NEW packages will be installed:
ipsec-tools{a} libbonoboui2-0{a} libbonoboui2-common{a} libfcgi0ldbl{a} libgnomecanvas2-0{a} libgnomecanvas2-common{a} libgnomeui-0{a}
libgnomeui-common{a} libstrongswan{a} network-manager-openvpn{a} network-manager-openvpn-gnome network-manager-pptp network-manager-pptp-gnome
network-manager-strongswan network-manager-vpnc network-manager-vpnc-gnome pptp-linux{a} strongswan-ikev2{a} strongswan-nm{a}
The following packages will be REMOVED:
gir1.2-gnomedesktop-3.0{u}
0 packages upgraded, 19 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
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Why would it want to remove gir1.2-gnomedesktop-3.0?
This is now the second time i had to reload kali for the same thing, previouse time it wasnt trying to enable VPN that broke it though..
If you want to keep a package that was installed as part of something else (and later removed), you can always do
aptitude reinstall gir1.2-gnomedesktop-3.0. That will make sure that package will be marked as manually installed rather than as an automated installation.awesome !!!! thanks for the info
hi sir ,
my clg have wlan connection but they gives authentication user name and password with proxy and port …..so vpn can help on it …? or recommend any tool for that ……….thank u
I want to know how to connect it in China. Thanks.
Please help, after I ran the command, most of my keyboard keys stopped working. what could be the cause? I was also scared to restart my pc as I suspected it would start in terminal mode. Is there any command to fix everything back?
apt-get remove pkg-name
I get this when I try to install them. How do I fix that?
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Err http://http.kali.org/kali/ kali/main libart-2.0-2 amd64 2.3.21-2
404 Not Found
Err http://http.kali.org/kali/ kali/main libfcgi0ldbl amd64 2.4.0-8.1
404 Not Found
Err http://http.kali.org/kali/ kali/main libgnomecanvas2-common all 2.30.3-1.2
404 Not Found
Get: 1 http://security.kali.org/kali-security/ kali/updates/main libstrongswan amd64 4.5.2-1.5+deb7u7 [523 kB]
Err http://http.kali.org/kali/ kali/main libgnomecanvas2-0 amd64 2.30.3-1.2
404 Not Found
Err http://http.kali.org/kali/ kali/main libbonoboui2-common all 2.24.3-1
404 Not Found
Err http://http.kali.org/kali/ kali/main libbonoboui2-0 amd64 2.24.3-1
404 Not Found
Get: 2 http://security.kali.org/kali-security/ kali/updates/main strongswan-nm amd64 4.5.2-1.5+deb7u7 [58.4 kB]
Err http://http.kali.org/kali/ kali/main libgnomeui-common all 2.24.5-2
404 Not Found
Err http://http.kali.org/kali/ kali/main libgnomeui-0 amd64 2.24.5-2
404 Not Found
Err http://http.kali.org/kali/ kali/main network-manager-openvpn amd64 0.9.4.0-1
404 Not Found
Get: 3 http://security.kali.org/kali-security/ kali/updates/main ipsec-tools amd64 1:0.8.0-14+deb7u1 [103 kB]
Err http://http.kali.org/kali/ kali/main network-manager-openvpn-gnome amd64 0.9.4.0-1
404 Not Found
Err http://http.kali.org/kali/ kali/main pptp-linux amd64 1.7.2-7
404 Not Found
Err http://http.kali.org/kali/ kali/main network-manager-pptp amd64 0.9.4.0-2
404 Not Found
Err http://http.kali.org/kali/ kali/main network-manager-pptp-gnome amd64 0.9.4.0-2
404 Not Found
Err http://http.kali.org/kali/ kali/main network-manager-vpnc amd64 0.9.4.0-1
404 Not Found
Err http://http.kali.org/kali/ kali/main network-manager-vpnc-gnome amd64 0.9.4.0-1
404 Not Found
Err http://http.kali.org/kali/ kali/main network-manager-strongswan amd64 1.3.0-1
404 Not Found
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E: Failed to fetch http://http.kali.org/kali/pool/main/liba/libart-lgpl/libart-2.0-2_2.3.21-2_amd64.deb: 404 Not Found
Hi Nexijt,
This is a Kali repository problem. You need to wait until it’s fixed.
Thanks,
-BMO
Any idea on how to get a Cisco PCF certificate to work with Kali Linux 2.0?
Regards
i had the same problem becuase i was using a old kali and when try to download it tryed to download new stuff and old so i did cat << EOF > /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://old.kali.org/kali moto main non-free contrib
EOF
apt-get update&&apt-get upgrade
kali 3.14 or 3.18 i cant remeber
but after doing that i could then grab packets from this version back only witch is really good if your running low on memory
after that then i done
apt-get install network-manager-openvpn-gnome network-manager-pptp network-manager-pptp-gnome network-manager-strongswan network-manager-vpnc network-manager-vpnc-gnome
and not a problem
MY Problem’s Always VPN Not Connected when i try to connect it’s say “Connecting”
Then back to not Connecteing
i try every thing in google / Youtube but all’s Usless
if any one can help please don’t late :D
apt-get install network-manager-pptp
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
network-manager-pptp : Depends: pptp-linux but it is not going to be installed
Depends: ppp (>= 2.4.5) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: ppp (< 2.4.6) but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: network-manager-pptp-gnome but it is not going to be installed or
plasma-widget-networkmanagement but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
I cant install, this error shows up