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I have a Ubuntu Server 16.04 VM in VirtualBox, downloaded and installed strongSwan on it using commands below:

sudo apt-get install gcc make libgmp3-dev build-essential

wget http://download.strongswan.org/strongswan-5.6.0.tar.bz2
tar xjvf strongswan-5.6.0.tar.bz2
cd strongswan-5.6.0

./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc
sudo make
sudo make install

After sudo make it states that vici plugin will be installed:

strongSwan will be built with the following plugins
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libstrongswan: aes des rc2 sha2 sha1 md5 random nonce x509 revocation constraints pubkey pkcs1 pkcs7 pkcs8 pkcs12 pgp dnskey sshkey pem fips-prf gmp curve25519 xcbc cmac hmac
libcharon:     attr kernel-netlink resolve socket-default stroke vici updown xauth-generic
libtnccs:     
libtpmtss:

But after building and installing swanctl --stats outputs:

connecting to 'unix:///var/run/charon.vici' failed: No such file or directory
Error: connecting to 'default' URI failed: No such file or directory
strongSwan 5.6.0 swanctl

Everything is done step-by-step as on strongSwan Installation Documentation. What is the possible reason it is not working?

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The solution to problem is starting charon daemon and enabling strongswan service (so after reboot it will start automatically). For my installation I need to use these commands:

sudo /usr/libexec/ipsec/charon &
sudo systemctl enable strongswan.service

Also, I added this option to configuration, since I use Ubuntu Server 16.04 with systemd:

sudo ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --with-systemdsystemunitdir=/lib/systemd/system

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