Linux Mint 18.3 does not have network-manager-l2tp package

[Penguin101]

There is no network-manager-l2tp or network-manager-l2tp-gnome package in Linux Mint 18.3 Cinnamon, am I missing anything? Because of the missing package, I cannot set up L2TP/IPsec VPN. Can someone help me?.

Thanks

[Sir Charles]

You would need to add a PPA to your sources in order to install the missing packages. Copy-paste the following command one at the time in a terminal:

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

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apt-get update

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​apt-get install network-manager-l2tp network-manager-l2tp-gnome

Reboot.

(see: https://github.com/nm-l2tp/network-mana ... ges#ubuntu)

[Penguin101]

You would need to add a PPA to your sources in order to install the missing packages. Copy-paste the following command one at the time in a terminal:

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

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apt-get update

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​apt-get install network-manager-l2tp network-manager-l2tp-gnome

Reboot.

(see: https://github.com/nm-l2tp/network-mana ... ges#ubuntu)

Thank you very much. I was wondering why Linux Mint does not include those packages in its official repository.

[Sir Charles]

I was wondering why Linux Mint does not include those packages in its official repository.

Good question, but unfortunately, I am not in a position to answer that. Maybe a new topic for a new thread
Anyway, I hope you get your VPN set-up going smoothly.
Good Luck!

[dkosovic]

I was wondering why Linux Mint does not include those packages in its official repository.

Although the PPA repository has contained instructions for the last 9 months on how to vote to have network-manager-l2tp added to an official backport repository (which is seen when the repository is added via the command-line and also visible on the PPA website), only 10 users have voted for the launchpad backport bug report, so it is unlikely to be added any time soon. I think Mint 18 has the Ubuntu 16.04 backports repository as a standard repository, but could be wrong.

I submitted network-manager-l2tp package to Debian last year and consequently was automatically imported to Ubuntu 17.10 and Mint 19 (and later)