Changes between Version 28 and Version 29 of OpenvpnSoftwareRepos


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Timestamp:
06/08/17 21:27:04 (7 years ago)
Author:
David Sommerseth
Comment:

Improved details about Fedora/RHEL

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    99 * Official Debian and Ubuntu repositories tend to have fairly old OpenVPN versions available
    10  * There are fairly up-to-date versions of OpenVPN releases available in places such as  [http://repoforge.org/ RepoForge] (previously RPMForge) for !RedHat derivatives. Also, Fedora typically has the latest upstream version in its repositories.
     10 * The Fedora and Fedora EPEL provides fairly up-to-date OpenVPN releases for supported Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (including clones such as CentOS, Scientific Linux) releases.
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    1212All 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. If you encountered any issues with the package, please file a new [wiki:TesterDocumentation#Reportingbugs bug report].
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    14 = Using OpenVPN apt repositories =
     14= Debian / Ubuntu: Using OpenVPN apt repositories =
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    1616We maintain several OpenVPN (OSS) software repositories. To setup the repositories you need to change to the root user. Typically this is done using ''sudo'':
     
    5656Now you're set for installing OpenVPN. Note that packages built for older operating system releases ''might'' work just fine on newer release of the same operating system.
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    58 = Installing OpenVPN =
     58== Installing OpenVPN ==
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    6060On !Debian/Ubuntu use
     
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    66 = Notes on expired keys =
     66== Notes on expired keys ==
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    6868If the apt signing key expires, apt will complain when refreshing the package cache (e.g. ''apt-get update''). To fix this remove the expired key from apt keychain:
     
    8484--- snip ---
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     86
     87= Fedora / Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Using Fedora EPEL =
     88
     89For Fedora distributions, you can skip right to the '''Install OpenVPN''' section below.
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     91For Red Hat Enterprise Linux and clones, follow the [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL Fedora EPEL guide] on how to install the EPEL repository.  Scientific Linux have a helper packages already handy which can be installed using `yum install yum-conf-epel`.  CentOS might have a similar package too.
     92
     93== Install OpenVPN ==
     94
     95{{{
     96   [root@host:~]# yum install openvpn
     97}}}
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     99On Fedora releases using `dnf`, it is equally simple:
     100
     101{{{
     102   [root@host:~]# dnf install openvpn
     103}}}
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     105All packages in the Fedora repositories are signed by the official Fedora keys.