Hi,

I've been a Window user for years but I'm new to Linux and I'm trying to use the below link to install an OpenVPN. My question is - Do I download it or copy/paste it into the terminal or what do I do?


EPEL : # rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel...6-8.noarch.rpm

I tried to download it in terminal and got this.....

[vmware@localhost ~]$ rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel...6-8.noarch.rpm
Retrieving http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel...6-8.noarch.rpm
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404
error: skipping http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel...6-8.noarch.rpm - transfer failed
[vmware@localhost ~]$

Any advice will be much appreciated, Thanks

Would this help you a bit more?

http://www.server-world.info/en/note?os=CentOS_6&p=openvpn

I've done some extensive research on Google on this subject and haven't found anything useful but I'll take a look at it. Thanks

It appears you may have the wrong link to the EPEL RPM. The correct link assuming you are running RHEL/CentOS/Scientific Linux 6.x is:

http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel...6-8.noarch.rpm

Note that EPEL is a repository of software for distributions based on Red Had Enterprise Linux (e.g. CentOS). It contains not only packages for OpenVPN, but a wide variety of other software as well.

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...and I'll add to this by saying you're far better off using the yum command to install packages, especially if you're new to Linux. One package may depend on MANY others....and unless you install them ALL, things won't work right (if at all). It's tiresome to download RPM packages individually and install them one by one, when you can just type "yum install openvpn", and have it work.

Also worthy of note would be: unless you are paying for Red Hat Enterprise, do NOT use it. Use CentOS instead, which is 99.x% IDENTICAL to RHEL, but free. That's important, since if you don't pay for RHEL, you WILL NOT be able to use online repositories, since you're not registered. There are several guides on how to set up additional repositories for CentOS...a very easy process:
http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalRes...ories/RPMForge
http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/yu...ositories.html
Really?? Putting "how to install openvpn on centos 6" pulls up LOTS of very detailed, easy-to-follow information:
http://safesrv.net/install-openvpn-on-centos/

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This is generally good advice, however, one of the problems with RHEL is that they don't have very many packages installed by default (much fewer than Debian or Ubuntu, say). The EPEL repositoty adds many additional packages, including OpenVPN (I am assuming that because OpenVPN is in EPEL, it's not in the standard repos, though I have not checked this). In this particular case, since the epel package just adds the new repository to the yum configuration and therefore has no dependencies that wouldn't be present on any install, simply rpm'ing it is safe. In general, however, TB0ne is of course correct and I should have mentioned that.

One other note regarding yum, it is possible to use it to install RPM files one has downloaded, using "yum localinstall <filename>.rpm". This is cool because, just like installing a package from a repository, yum will attempt to satisft all dependencies.

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I gave "safesrv.net/install-openvpn-on-centos" a try a couple of times in the past and it failed. I tried it again and got this....

[root@localhost vmware]# rpm -Uvh lzo-*.rpm
warning: lzo-1.08-4.rf.src.rpm: Header V3 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 6b8d79e6: NOKEY
1:lzo warning: user dag does not exist - using root
warning: group dag does not exist - using root
warning: user dag does not exist - using root
warning: group dag does not exist - using root
########################################### [100%]
[root@localhost vmware]#

I tried to download it in terminal and got this.....

[vmware@localhost ~]$ rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel...6-8.noarch.rpm
Retrieving http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel...6-8.noarch.rpm
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404
error: skipping http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel...6-8.noarch.rpm - transfer failed
[vmware@localhost ~]$


I have an OpenVPN running on my host computer (Windows 7) and CentOS in VMware Player. The VPN goes over the top of VM but I assume this will not interfere with the download process?

this just gave you warning because by default dag group and user are not there on your system. So, by default it is using root user and group. And the package has been installed successfully.

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If you see the error it says code no. 404.
It means the url you are requesting is not found and if you open this link it will give you this error-

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Thank you for the advice, I will try that "http://safesrv.net/install-openvpn-on-centos/" again.

that's a 'src' rpm; don't even bother trying to install it. you just want the regular rpm (and in any case, don't use rpm cmd, use yum for dependencies)

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Again, you really should NOT be installing with the rpm command. Use yum to install packages, and it will resolve dependencies for you.

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http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_c...entos-5x-or-6x
http://gembuls.wordpress.com/2011/02...ory-on-centos/

http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm

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Thanks guys but I've given up on CentOS now, I think two months of trying to do this is enough time spent.

I'm going to see if it is possible to install an OpenVPN in Ubuntu.