Connect to school/workplace network on Linux (Meru Networks/C2K)

The following quick and dirty fix will allow you to connect to school/workplace C2K (Meru Networks) network on Linux Mint and Ubuntu.

First of all if you can, connect to your Guest hotspot at school/workplace, log-in and download the Ubuntu installer and the profile file. If you are unable to do this, try this installer.

Once downloaded, double click on the file and the installator will apear, I have tested this on Linux Mint 18.1 and all dependecies (supposedly) were met and installation went without errors.

After the installation the "Smart Connect" program will appear in your program list - however you should notice that nothing happens whenever you click on it, it simply does not execute.

The fix to this as I have found out is to run the program as root so open terminal up then "cd /opt/SmartConnect" and "./SmartConnect".
Do not be disturbed if you are greeted by series of squares instead of text, they can simply be copied and pasted into text editor if you need to read them. 

Of course to actually connect as the unreadable square sign explains, you will also need a profile file (or address) which you can only obtain from your school/workplace wifi.

The usage is:  
"SmartConnect -f http://location/of/profile.scl" or
"SmartConnect -f file:///location/of/profile.scl" or  
"SmartConnect -f /location/of/profile.scl".  
Do not forget to prefix "sudo" otherwise nothing will happen.

If you have succesfully obtained the certificate you will be presented with the window with more of the unreadable square characters. But it is pretty self descriptive, all you need to do is hit the button - one of them will be for connecting and the other for cancelling.

If you want to make the shortcut work refer to this answer which should work for both Linux Mint and Ubuntu.

Fully tested (internet connection working) on Linux Mint 17.3 at school with C2K network. Only program operation (root fix) tested on Linux Mint 18.