Comment 47 for bug 872824

Here are the steps to install the 12.10 binaries on 12.04:

% wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/108979339/network-manager-strongswan_1.3.0-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
% wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/108979332/strongswan-nm_4.5.2-1.5ubuntu2_amd64.deb
% wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/108979331/strongswan-ikev2_4.5.2-1.5ubuntu2_amd64.deb
% wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/108979327/libstrongswan_4.5.2-1.5ubuntu2_amd64.deb
% sudo dpkg -i libstrongswan_4.5.2-1.5ubuntu2_amd64.deb
% sudo dpkg -i strongswan-ikev2_4.5.2-1.5ubuntu2_amd64.deb
% sudo dpkg -i strongswan-nm_4.5.2-1.5ubuntu2_amd64.deb
% sudo dpkg -i network-manager-strongswan_1.3.0-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb

I can confirm this gets you past the hang and lets the config dialog appear. I can't confirm that strongswan itself is functional, as the other end of the connection I'm testing requires a pre-shared key, and the strongswan wiki[1] page on the Network Manager plugin notes that, "PSK is not supported, as it is considered insecure if the secrets are not strong enough." (So PSK is supported by strongswan (as documented elsewhere), just not by the Network Manager plugin. Thanks for the value judgment.)

1. http://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/NetworkManager

Reinstalling openswan.

 -Tom