Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Snapshots and stable releases
3. Compatibility
4. Using repos.openvpn.net
5. Upgrading from build.openvpn.net
6. Installing OpenVPN

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	Ubuntu 12.04
Debian 6.x (Squeeze)	Untested	Yes	Untested	Untested	Untested	Untested	Untested	Untested
Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid)	Untested	Untested	Untested	Yes	Untested	Yes	Yes	Untested
Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise)	Untested	Untested	Untested	Untested	Untested	Untested	Untested	Yes
AS 1.8.3 (deb)	Untested	Yes	Untested	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 Ubuntu Precise Pangolin (12.04)
• ​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:

• ​Debian codenames
• ​Ubuntu codenames

Upgrading from build.openvpn.net

If you started using OpenVPN apt repos between 2.2.0 and 2.2.2 releases, you're probably using the old repository server (build.openvpn.net). Although adding repos.openvpn.net repo file on top of that won't cause any issues, you may want to speed up apt by removing any sources.list fragments associated with it:

$ rm -f /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openvpn-lenny.list
$ rm -f /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openvpn-lucid.list

Also, build.openvpn.net repos may be taken offline later, which means apt will start complaining sooner or later.

Installing OpenVPN

On Debian, use

$ apt-get update && apt-get install openvpn

On RedHat/Fedora use

$ yum install openvpn