snx: error while loading shared libraries: libX11.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.
This is an error I encountered when installing Check Point VPN client on Linux Mint 19. This article, I will show you how to fix this error.
First, I have successfully installed Check Point VPN client on Linux Mint 18 and have no problems.
Recommended Reading: How to install Check Point VPN client in Linux
The error “/usr/bin/cshell/launcher: not found”
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When I did the same on Mint 19, when I installed cshell, I encountered an error like the following.
root@linux:~/Desktop# bash cshell_install.sh
Start Check Point Mobile Access Portal Agent installation
Extracting Mobile Access Portal Agent... Done
Installing Mobile Access Portal Agent... Done
Installing certificate... Done
Starting Mobile Access Portal Agent... /bin/sh: 1: /usr/bin/cshell/launcher: not foundI listed the cshell folder and found the launcher file in it, which is absurd.
root@linux:~/Desktop# ls -al /usr/bin/cshell/
total 1652
drwxr-xr-x 4 danie danie 4096 Aug 13 22:05 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 65536 Aug 9 20:09 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 danie danie 4096 Aug 13 22:05 cert
-rwxr-xr-x 1 danie danie 1588827 May 21 2018 CShell.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 danie danie 8230 May 21 2018 cshell_uninstall.sh
-rwx--x--x 1 danie danie 7415 May 21 2018 launcher
drwxr-xr-x 2 danie danie 4096 Aug 13 22:05 tmpI think that the launcher file is an executable file and probably calls a dependency file and it can’t be found.
For the time being, I don’t know which file is missing.
Next, I installed the snx package and encountered the following error.
root@linux:~/Desktop# bash snx_install.sh
Installation successfull
snx: error while loading shared libraries: libX11.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directoryAt this point, I know I have a missing file.
To be sure, I use the following command to check if snx is missing any files. And just like the error message, it is missing libX11.so.6.
root@linux:~/Desktop# ldd $(which snx)
linux-gate.so.1 (0xf7f57000)
libX11.so.6 => not found
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0xf7f16000)
libresolv.so.2 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libresolv.so.2 (0xf7efe000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0xf7ef9000)
libpam.so.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpam.so.0 (0xf7ee9000)
libnsl.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libnsl.so.1 (0xf7ece000)
libstdc++.so.5 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.5 (0xf7e0f000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0xf7c33000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf7f59000)
libaudit.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libaudit.so.1 (0xf7c09000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0xf7b07000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xf7ae7000)
libcap-ng.so.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libcap-ng.so.0 (0xf7ae1000)I checked my computer has installed this package or not and it was amazing that it was already installed.
root@linux:~/Desktop# apt-get install libx11-6
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libx11-6 is already the newest version (2:1.6.4-3ubuntu0.2).But looking back at the installation steps, I realized that Check Point VPN client on Linux runs 32 bit. And I just checked the 64 bit package, this is probably my omission.
And here, I try to solve the problem by installing the package libx11-6:i386 with the following command.
apt-get install libx11-6:i386 -yAfter the installation is complete, I try to run the snx command and it’s great, it’s out of error.
root@linux:~/Desktop# snx
failed to open file: /root/.snxrc
Valid attributes are:
- server SNX server to connet to
- sslport The SNX SSL port (if not default)
- username the user name
- certificate certificate file to use
- calist directory containing CA files
- reauth enable automatic reauthentication. Valid values { yes, no }
- debug enable debug output. Valid values { yes, 1-5 }
- cipher encryption algorithm to use. Valid values { RC4 / 3DES }
- proxy_name proxy hostname
- proxy_port proxy port
- proxy_user username for proxy authenticationNext, I ran the cshell launcher file and it was great, it worked without any errors.
root@linux:~/Desktop# /usr/bin/cshell/launcher
LAUNCHER> Starting CShell...
LAUNCHER> CShell StartedConclusion
With each step of the tutorial in this article, I hope you can fix the error with Check Point VPN client on your Linux machine.
(This is an article from my old blog that has been inactive for a long time, I don’t want to throw it away so I will keep it and hope it helps someone).
Your posts on snx vpn helped me a lot, thanks