Things in Linux

Configuring Check Point SSL network extender on windows will not be a problem, but configuring on linux may really a big problem if you couldn't install necessary dependencies and plugins. I, here describe how it was properly install on Ubuntu 14.04/10 and Linux Mint 17.2. I expect other Linux distributions will support this method. Follow the bellow steps. 1. You need to update the Ubuntu system first. use software updater or type the bellow command on terminal.   sudo apt-get update  sudo apt-get upgrade  sudo apt-get dist-upgrade  sudo apt-get autoclean 2. install JDK and icedTea plugin. you need to install jdk 6, because check point extender will not support for java version 7 and will give an error as "java unavailable".  sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jre openjdk-6-jdk icedtea-plugin 3. Install necessary libraries.  sudo apt-get install libpam0g:i386 libx11-6:i386 libstdc++5:i386 4. restart the Ubuntu so that the changes to be taken effect.

A common problem when installing vmware on ubuntu is compiling the kernel modules. Normally after installing vmware workstation on linux, at the first time we run vmware it popped up a message saying that several modules must be compiled and loaded into running kernel. when compiling this modules it gives an error message saying that unable to start services. This problem can be successfully solved using following steps. 1. log in as root     sudo -i 2. Enter your root password 3. install the DKMS(Dynamic kernel module support) package.     sudo apt-get install dkms 4. install the "curl" command line tool for file transferring (many ways to do this without curl. normally i used curl)    sudo apt-get install curl 5. get the patch from Internet using curl.(you should have working internet connection)    curl http://pastie.org/pastes/9934018/download -o /tmp/vmnet-3.19.patch 6. run following commands one by one to run the patch.     cd /usr/lib