Pulse Secure Installation On Ubuntu 18 or 19

Ubuntu 19.04 is not support platform for pulse secure. You may get it work by following below instructions without installing dependencies by package manager. Note: Use carefully && caution with your own risk.

• As root user, run:

  dpkg -i pulse-9.0.R3.x86_64.deb
  cd /usr/local/pulse/
  

• Allow installation for 19.04 by sed ( or manually in line 279 in PulseClient_x86_64.sh)

  sed -i "s/UBUNTU_VER\ \=\ 18\ \]/& \|\|\ [\ \$UBUNTU_VER\ \=\ 19 \]/" PulseClient_x86_64.sh
  

• May not needed. At least it will fail with packages which not found.

  ./PulseClient_x86_64.sh install_dependency_packages
  

• Lets make debs and extra folders:

  mkdir /usr/local/pulse/extra
  mkdir /usr/local/pulse/debs   
  

• Download below packages from archice.ubuntu.com to /usr/local/pulse/debs:

  cd /usr/local/pulse/debs
  wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/i/icu/libicu60_60.2-3ubuntu3_amd64.deb
  wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/w/webkitgtk/libjavascriptcoregtk-1.0-0_2.4.11-3ubuntu3_amd64.deb
  wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/w/webkitgtk/libwebkitgtk-1.0-0_2.4.11-3ubuntu3_amd64.deb
  

• Extract *.deb files on /usr/local/pulse/extra

  cd /usr/local/pulse/extra
  dpkg -x /usr/local/pulse/debs/libicu60_60.2-3ubuntu3_amd64.deb .
  dpkg -x /usr/local/pulse/debs/libjavascriptcoregtk-1.0-0_2.4.11-3ubuntu3_amd64.deb .
  dpkg -x /usr/local/pulse/debs/libwebkitgtk-1.0-0_2.4.11-3ubuntu3_amd64.deb .
  

• Which to normal user and export LD_LIBRARY_PATH in command line:

  export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/pulse/extra/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/
  

• As normal user, run pulse secure GUI on command line:

  /usr/local/pulse/pulseUi
  

Now you should able to see pulseUI and continue with it. Note: For troubleshooting purpose, you can use ldd command to check which libraries are needed, like: ldd /usr/local/pulse/pulseUi