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I try to setup a vpn client on my ubuntu desktop. I know that some packet are now deprecated and not supported in 16.04. I've tried to run sudo apt-get install strongswan network-manager-strongswan like suggested this link but it doesn't seems to change anything. I only get the PPTP protocol under "new VPN connection"

I manage to get the VPN working for windows, macos and even ios but since the recent release of ubuntu and debian it looks like a real nightmare to configure L2TP/IPsec on those platform

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  • We don't know how accurately you followed the linked procedure, nor what the results of each command were on YOUR system. How are we supposed to help?
    – waltinator
    May 11, 2016 at 16:07
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    @waltinator it's literally one command line so appart from making a typo how could you possibly get the "procedure" wrong ? regarding the output there isn't much to say if there is no error is it ? ( I would have started by that it was the case... ) The issue must comes from that not be enough to setup the vpn...
    – 0x1gene
    May 11, 2016 at 16:15
  • Same problem here. I think, like me. The OP expects that by installing the network-manager-strongswan package, that we would be able to go > Network Manager > Connect to VPN > Add > IPSEC VPN Connection. Except that install network-manager-strongswan seems to do nothing for the menu options.
    – Brandon Bertelsen
    May 28, 2016 at 0:47
  • Duplicate of askubuntu.com/questions/617785/…, as 16.x does not have out-of-the-box support for L2TP.
    – Seth
    Aug 30, 2016 at 20:07

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There seems to be a known issue about this. Error message when starting network manager from Terminal:

$ nm-connection-editor 
** Message: vpn: (strongswan,/etc/NetworkManager/VPN/nm-strongswan-service.name) cannot load legacy-only plugin
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