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I am trying to connect to a L2TP over IPsec VPN I installed network-manager-l2tp and this repository : ppa:nm-l2tp/network-manager-l2tp and when I'm trying to add the connection from Network Connections I get this error:

Could not load editor VPN plugin for 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.l2tp' (missing plugin file "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/NetworkManager/libnm-vpn-plugin-l2tp-editor.so").

How can I install the plugin?

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    What happens if you install network-manager-l2tp-gnome?
    – Kaz Wolfe
    Jul 8, 2017 at 21:33
  • Well, it works :D
    – sticsk
    Jul 8, 2017 at 21:35
  • Alright, answer added for sake of completeness. Glad I could help!
    – Kaz Wolfe
    Jul 8, 2017 at 21:37
  • For a command-line only approach see... askubuntu.com/a/983971/201083
    – kervin
    Dec 8, 2017 at 0:26

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This appears to be because you just installed the command-line side of NetworkManager's L2TP support.

In order to use the GUI to configure L2TP VPNs as well, you will need to install the network-manager-l2tp-gnome package like so:

sudo apt install network-manager-l2tp-gnome

Following this, a restart of nm-applet may be necessary to make NetworkManager see the change. In order to do this, just run the following:

killall nm-applet
nm-applet &
disown

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