Cisco vpnclient 4.8.01.x on Fedora 12

I had to get Cisco’s vpnclient working on Fedora 12 today, and there were a few tricks, so I thought I’d post what worked for me.  I only had vpnclient version 4.8.01.0640 but the directions may work for 4.8.02.x as well.

Untar the vpnclient software, then perform the following instructions, found in this blog posting:

http://www.lamnk.com/blog/domain/how-to-install-cisco-vpn-client-on-ubuntu-hardy-heron-804

Then perform the following instructions, found in this blog posting:

http://www.lamnk.com/blog/vpn/how-to-install-cisco-vpn-client-on-ubuntu-jaunty-jackalope-and-karmic-koala-64-bit

Note that you may get patch errors in the above steps, but the compile should still work despite the patch errors.  After this, make sure you have the 32-bit version of glibc installed, which is available via yum.  After that, you should be able to compile and run the vpnclient software.