<> ## This is way out of date. ||<>|| '''The following is no longer true''' at least for Feisty, 2.X version is in the universe repository. Also, for configuring client side, network-manager-openvpn can become very handy. I leave the original page underneath in case anyne needed it. OpenVPN version 1.x is available in the universe reposiroty. {{{apt-get install openvpn}}} will do the necessary. Although OpenVPN version 2 is still at beta stage at the time of writing, it is already in use quite widely (my employers have been using it for a while on both windows and linux clients). If you want (or need, as release 2 has some functionality not in version 1) to go for version 2. You can download the source code from here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/openvpn/ You'll need to install a couple of packages that the confiure script looks for: {{{ apt-get install libssl-dev liblzo-dev }}} Unzip the source file and change directory into the newly created openvpn-2.0_rcXX directory (where XX is the current release number), then it's just a case of {{{ ./configure make sudo make install }}} That's about it, now you just need to set up your config file and certs somewhere convenient {{{ sudo mkdir /etc/openvpn }}} and then specify your config file as a command line argument {{{ openvpn --with-config= }}} = Notes = for it to work properly you need the tun module in your kernel * make sure the firewall allows vpn * instructions for creating a tap If you just want to connect to a microsoft based VPN, you probably don't want to use OpenVPN. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VPNClient ---- CategoryVPN