Linux Client Setup

Many Linux distributions with a Graphical User Interface (GUI) have built-in support for VPNs which can be configured through their default graphical network management utilities. In some cases, you may need to install "network-manager-openvpn" or "NetworkManager-openvpn", which can be found through your distributions GUI package management system. The below steps will still work on GUI distributions, but they may be unnecessary.

 

 

Installation

Red Hat / CentOS

Setup Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL)

Install OpenVPN

yum install openvpn

 

Fedora

Install OpenVPN

yum install openvpn

 

Debian / Ubuntu

Installation via OpenVPN repository

sudo apt-get install openvpn sudo openvpn --config /home/users/.../config.ovpn

And then add a OpenVPN connectıon to Network Manager →  VPN → Click  → chose Import from file → show openvpn.ovpn certificate folder → Add

Configuration

Unpack configuration files

 

Starting the Client

Red Hat / CentOS / Fedora

 

Debian / Ubuntu

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