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Introduction
Latest OpenVPN releases are also available in the project's apt repositories. This allow you to use more up-to-date version of OpenVPN than what's typically available in your distribution's repositories.
Please note that all commands listed below have to be run as root, e.g. using sudo or su.
Snapshots and stable releases
The s.c. "stable" packages built from official releases are only available for Debian/Ubuntu?. This is so for two reasons:
- Official Debian/Ubuntu? repositories tend to have fairly old OpenVPN versions available
- There are fairly up-to-date versions of OpenVPN releases available in places such as RepoForge (previously RPMForge)
Snapshots are available for all platforms to facilitate use of the latest OpenVPN features. New versions are built on a weekly/bi-weekly basis in a semi-automated fashion.
For Access Server, only release ("stable") packages are available.
Compatibility
All Linux packages are available in i386 and amd64/x86_64 flavours. Even if a package is built on a particular OS, it does not mean it won't work on older and/or newer versions of the same distro, or even on a different operating system. Compatibility for Debian packages:
| Package | Works on | ||||||
| Debian 5.x | Debian 6.x | Debian 7.x | Ubuntu 10.04 | Ubuntu 10.10 | Ubuntu 11.04 | Ubuntu 11.10 | |
| Debian 5.x (Lenny) | Yes | Untested | Untested | Untested | Untested | Untested | Untested |
| Debian 6.x (Squeeze) | Untested | Yes | Untested | Untested | Untested | Untested | Untested |
| Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid) | Untested | Untested | Untested | Yes | Untested | Yes | Yes |
| AS 1.8.3 (deb) | Untested | Yes | Untested | Untested | Untested | Untested | Untested |
Compatibility for RPM packages:
| Package | Works on | ||
| Fedora 15 | Fedora 16 | RHEL 6 | |
| Fedora 16 | Untested | Works | Untested |
| RHEL 6 | Untested | Untested | Works |
| AS 1.8.3 (RPM) | Untested | Works | Untested |
If you've tested the packages yourself on an OS marked as "Untested", please change the appropriate cell to say "Yes" or "No", depending on whether the package worked or not. If you encountered any issues with the package, please file a new bug report.
Using repos.openvpn.net
We have several OpenVPN (OSS) repositories. To use them, blindly follow these instructions:
- Stable releases for Debian Lenny (5.0)
- Stable releases for Debian Squeeze (6.0)
- Stable releases for Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (10.04)
- Snapshots for Debian Lenny (5.0)
- Snapshots for Debian Squeeze (6.0)
- Snapshots for Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (10.04)
- Snapshots for RHEL/CentOS/Scientific Linux 6.x
- Snapshots for Fedora 16
There are also two Access Server repositories:
- Stable Access Server releases for Debian-based distributions
- Stable Access Server releases for RPM-based distributions
All available README files are listed at http://repos.openvpn.net/repos/<apt|yum>/conf/. If you're unsure which codename your Debian/Ubuntu? -based OS uses, look here:
Installing OpenVPN
On Debian, use
$ apt-get update && apt-get install openvpn
On RedHat/Fedora use
$ yum install openvpn
