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= Introduction =

Latest OpenVPN releases are also available in the OpenVPN 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''.

Stable releases built from official releases are only available for Debian and Ubuntu. This is so for two reasons:

 * Official Debian and 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  [http://repoforge.org/ RepoForge] (previously RPMForge) for !RedHat derivatives

All 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].

= Using repos.openvpn.net =

We have several supported OpenVPN (OSS) repositories. To use them, blindly follow these instructions:

 * [http://repos.openvpn.net/repos/apt/conf/swupdate.openvpn.net-squeeze-stable.txt Stable releases for Debian Squeeze (6.0)]
 * [http://repos.openvpn.net/repos/apt/conf/swupdate.openvpn.net-lucid-stable.txt Stable releases for Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (10.04)]
 * [http://repos.openvpn.net/repos/apt/conf/swupdate.openvpn.net-precise-stable.txt Stable releases for Ubuntu Precise Pangolin (12.04)]

At the moment (October 2013) the building and packaging system is being migrated from dedicated build VMs to ''sbuild'' (Debian and Ubuntu) and ''Mock'' (RedHat derivatives). This should help provide a larger set of packages for various operating system flavours.

For a full list of available repositories (some discontinued, some not yet in use) look here:

 * [http://repos.openvpn.net/repos/apt/conf List of apt repositories]
 * [http://repos.openvpn.net/repos/yum/conf List of yum repositories]

= Installing OpenVPN =

On !Debian/Ubuntu use

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

On !RedHat/Fedora use

{{{
$ yum install openvpn
}}}