F5 SSL VPN for 64bit Linux

I got it working on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon 7.10 with the process below. Summary and other resources available at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1174435. (I'm not sure which actual packages you will need, but these are the names of the .deb files I used for Ubuntu 7.10).

 

 

download & install:

 

http://home.comcast.net/~ubuntume/ia32-lib-firefox-amd64.deb

 

 

run:

 

sudo apt-get -y install ia32-libs gsfonts alsa-oss

 

sudo apt-get -y install ia32-libs-gtk lib32asound2 lib32ncurses5 ia32-libs-sdl

 

sudo apt-get -y --force-yes install ia32-sun-java6-bin

 

 

download & install:

 

http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/l/linux32/linux32_1-3_amd64.deb

 

http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gsfonts-x11/gsfonts-x11_0.17ubuntu4_all.deb

 

http://home.comcast.net/~ubuntume/ia32-alsa-oss_1.0.10-1_amd64.deb

 

 

download & install:

 

http://home.comcast.net/~ubuntume/icecat-2.0.0.11-ubuntu_7.10-8.04_amd64.deb

 

 

Then, install the F5 plugin inside Icecat.

 

 

The reason I chose to use Icecat is that it will not interfere with any 64-bit or off-version plugins that you may have installed in your normal Firefox installation. I was unable to install both FireBug and the VPN plugin in the same browser, and it seems that firefox32, firefox32-3, and firefox64 all use the same plugins.

 

 

It is probably possible to separate these installations using some config tweaks, but I thought it would be more reliable, reproducible, and maintainable to use browsers that by default use separate plugin directories.

 

 

Good luck!