Doug Farmer wrote: > Tim, Hi Doug.
> Thanks for the response. I have installed vpnc on my machine. As far as > the plug-in is concerned...I have downloaded the source but how do I > compile and install the package? Like I said, I am very new to > Linux/Unix so I need all the help I can to get myself free of MS. I do > really appreciate your help. > > Which package do you recommend that I get rid of? I thought that I had > all the up-to-date packages that were offered through 'yum'?! Again, any > help is appreciated. NetworkManager.i386 0.4-15.cvs20050404 NetworkManager.i386 0.5.1-1.FC4.4 So it seems that you have two version of NetworkManager installed. Get rid of the first with # rpm -e NetworkManager-0.4-15.cvs20050404 Then install vpnc from extras with # yum install vpnc Then download ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/development/SRPMS/NetworkManager-vpnc-0.3-3.src.rpm and rebuild with # rpmbuild --rebuild NetworkManager-vpnc-0.3-3.src.rpm yum install any devel packages that may be required. This will create a package in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386, install it with # rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/NetworkManager-vpnc-0.3-3.i386.rpm Then restart NM with # /etc/init.d/NetworkManager restart to reload the list of available plugins. I'm not sure maybe you need to do a "killall nm-applet" to get the current list of VPNs. Not you can configure and use VPN connections. Tim -- Tim Niemueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.niemueller.de ================================================================= Imagination is more important than knowledge. (Albert Einstein) _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list