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Installing OPENVPN help please...

I'm not completely new to Linux but new enough to need a lot of help. I want to use SliTaz to run an openvpn server. I have openvpn mastered on windows; but when I install openvpn on SliTaz it says it installed properly, got the LZO dependency but there is nothing in the directories where the easy-rsa and config files are supposed to be. I've searched everywhere, reinstalled openvpn & SliTaz. When I use openvpn in the terminal it does give me a list of commands, but these are to configure the components that I don't see installed. No sample config or rsa generators. Can someone let me know what I am missing.

For the record I installed openvpn on Lubuntu and I see all the proper directories populated with what I need.

Thank you very much in advance to anyone who helps. I really love SliTaz but if I can't install the apps I need, I'll have to go with something else.

mojo

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Registered: 2011-03-29

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Re: Installing OPENVPN help please...

I've never setup openvpn on any distro,but this is how I'd approach it on slitaz.

Openvpn tazpkg includes precompiled /usr/sbin/openvpn,triggers installation of the required depends, post install it creates /etc/openvpn and /var/run/openvpn folders which get deleted post remove.

Download/extract openvpn source to get what was excluded from tazpkg:

[c]wget http://swupdate.openvpn.net/community/releases/openvpn-2.2.1.tar.gz[/c]

[c]tar xvf openvpn-2.2.1.tar.gz[/c]

Initscripts for autostarting on boot may have to be written or adapted from a similar distro like arch linux.

Reference:

http://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/documentation/howto.html

https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk?h=packages/openvpn