For OpenVPN 3 Linux, see the dedicated [OpenVPN 3 Linux](/Pages/OpenVPN3Linux) page.

The OpenVPN project provides the latest OpenVPN releases (and development snapshots) as packages for major Linux distributions. This allow you to use more up-to-date version of OpenVPN than what is typically available in your distribution's repositories.

Note that this is mostly interesting for users of distribution releases with long release cycles (e.g. Debian, Ubuntu LTS, RHEL). Distributions with rolling releases (e.g. Arch, openSUSE Tumbleweed) or half-year release cycles (e.g. Fedora, Ubuntu) should usually provide reasonably recent versions of OpenVPN.

There are various repositories available depending on your distribution and the desired version of OpenVPN:

* OpenVPN Community APT Repositories -- Provides Stable and Testing releases for Debian/Ubuntu

The [@OpenVPN/openvpn-release-2.7 Copr repository](https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/g/OpenVPN/openvpn-release-2.7/) currently contains the *latest stable OpenVPN* release. Note that this repository only contains builds for RHEL (via the EPEL repositories). Fedora releases already contain the latest OpenVPN release.

To test *OpenVPN beta releases*, the [@OpenVPN/openvpn-beta Copr repository](https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/g/OpenVPN/openvpn-beta/) contains builds. This contains builds for all supported Fedora and RHEL releases so you can test on top of whatever release you're using.

There are also *nightly builds of the master branch* available in [@OpenVPN/openvpn-git Copr repository](https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/g/OpenVPN/openvpn-git/). Testing welcome but **not intended for production use**!

OpenVPN releases since 2.6 have support for delegating the actual VPN connection to the Kernel for a significant speed-up (this feature is also called "Data Channel Offload" or DCO). Since Linux 6.16 this support is contained in the upstream kernel. The version shipped together with the Linux kernel is supported starting from OpenVPN 2.7.

1. **amd64**

Where **\<version\>** can be one of

1. **stable**: stable releases only - no alphas, betas or RCs

* **bullseye** (Debian 11.x)

* **trixie** (Debian 13.x)

* **questing** (Ubuntu 25.10)

OpenVPN releases since 2.6 have support for delegating the actual VPN connection to the Kernel for a significant speed-up (this feature is also called "Data Channel Offload" or DCO). Since Linux 6.16 this support is contained in the upstream kernel. The version shipped together with the Linux kernel is supported starting from OpenVPN 2.7.

If the apt signing key expires, apt will complain when refreshing the package cache (e.g. *apt-get update*). In that case just download the key again as described above.

Snapshot packages built from the latest source code for Debian/Ubuntu are managed in different repositories since we use the openSUSE Buildservice to build them.

You can find a list of supported Debian/Ubuntu Distributions on the [Download page](https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/isv:/OpenVPN:/Snapshots/). Use them as follows (example for Ubuntu 24.04):