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AT&T Global Network Client on Ubuntu Intrepid

AT&T Global Network Client is a VPN client used worldwide by several corporations to provide remote access to their intranet.

AT&T kindly provides a linux package, but in .rpm format (which as fine for me until now, as I was an openSuse user) and not in .deb format for Debian based distros like Ubuntu. You can get the latest .rpm package from here.

I tried converting the package using alien, but the installer didn’t work correctly. After some googling, I found the article “AT&T NetClient Debianizer” from Andre Macedo. Andre provides a utility, ubuntu_rpm2deb.sh, that will calculate dependencies needed and correctly create a .deb package that can be installed in your Ubuntu system. Here are all the steps I used to install AT&T Global Network Client:

# wget ftp://ftp.attglobal.net/pub/client/linux/agnclient-1.0-2.0.1.3000.i386.rpm
# wget http://blog.afmacedo.com/linux/ubuntu_rpm2deb.sh
# chmod a+x ubuntu_rpm2deb.sh
# ./ubuntu_rpm2deb.sh agnclient-1.0-2.0.1.3000.i386.rpm
# sudo dpkg -i agnclient-1.0-2.0.1.3000.i386.rpm

After the installation is complete, we need to start the client’s daemons:

# /etc/init.d/agnclientd start
# /etc/init.d/agnLogd start

And start the client by issuing:

# /opt/agns/bin/agnclient

I occasionally received the following error message when trying to check the status of the daemon:

# /etc/init.d/agnclientd status
/etc/init.d/agnclientd: line 54: [: 13336: binary operator expected
agnLogd is not running.

The error message was caused by having multiple agnclientd processes running. Just stop all of them and start the daemon again:

# sudo killall agnclientd
# sudo /etc/init.d/agnclientd start

Hope this helps!

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      Hi Vitor,

      Can you help me ?

      root@ubuntu:/usr/local/tst# dpkg -i agnclient_1.0~2.0.1.3003-1.1_amd64.deb
      (Lendo banco de dados … 125304 arquivos e diretórios atualmente instalados).
      Preparando para substituir agnclient 1.0~2.0.1.3003-1.1 (usando agnclient_1.0~2.0.1.3003-1.1_amd64.deb) …
      Desempacotando substituto agnclient …
      Configurando agnclient (1.0~2.0.1.3003-1.1) …
      update-rc.d: warning: /etc/init.d/agnLogd missing LSB information
      update-rc.d: see
      System start/stop links for /etc/init.d/agnLogd already exist.
      update-rc.d: warning: /etc/init.d/agnclientd missing LSB information
      update-rc.d: see
      System start/stop links for /etc/init.d/agnclientd already exist.
      /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d: 446: /etc/init.d/agnLogd: not found
      invoke-rc.d: initscript agnLogd, action “status” failed.
      /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d: 446: /etc/init.d/agnclientd: not found
      invoke-rc.d: initscript agnclientd, action “status” failed.

      Processando gatilhos para desktop-file-utils …
      Processando gatilhos para python-gmenu …
      Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/desktop.pt_BR.utf8.cache…
      Processando gatilhos para ureadahead …
      Processando gatilhos para libc-bin …
      ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
      Processando gatilhos para python-support …
      root@ubuntu:/usr/local/tst# ls -las /etc/init.d/agnclientd
      68 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 69576 2009-08-10 02:55 /etc/init.d/agnclientd
      root@ubuntu:/usr/local/tst# ls -las /etc/init.d/agnLogd
      16 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15012 2009-08-10 02:55 /etc/init.d/agnLogd
      root@ubuntu:/usr/local/tst# uname -a
      Linux ubuntu 2.6.32-28-generic #55-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jan 10 23:42:43 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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