Ubuntu
network-manager-pptp package

[Hardy] Include VPN connection with the Live CD

Bug #200250 reported by Lex Ross
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Bug Description

My ISP requires VPN (PPTP connection) to access the Internet. This should be an easy thing to do right from the start.
And there is no easy way to configure VPN on either 7.10 or 8.04 Alpha 6 Desktop CD. Just think how essential Internet connection is to the installation process itself, and I have no idea why pptp-linux and network-manager-pptp packages are not installed by default. In fact, network-manager-pptp package is not even included with the Desktop CD which makes things even worse. Please catch up!

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ojab (ojab) wrote :

In Russia (even in msk) LAN/MAN is primary internet access and in most cases it uses VPN for internet access, so when people install ubuntu, they cannot access internet.

Windows XP/Vista ships VPN support out of the box and ubuntu newbie think that Windows is more functional (at least user friendly). If there isn't guy who can help with network-manager-pptp installation, most likely user will stay on Windows.

It's bad :((.

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Lucky (lucky-sdf-eu) wrote :

Yes, I also think that network-manager-pptp should be on ubuntu cd.

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