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Posted: **Tue Mar 14, 2017 7:36 am**

Hello, trying to install openvpn v2.4.0 on ubuntu 16.10 (yakkety) using these instructions:
https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/w ... twareRepos
using <version> = stable, <osrelease> = yakkety
getting an error "The repository 'http://build.openvpn.net/debian/openvpn/stable yakkety Release' does not have a Release file."

Looks like there is no build has been generated for yakkety
https://build.openvpn.net/debian/openvpn/stable/

help please

Posted: **Thu Mar 16, 2017 1:26 pm**

We only (officially) support Ubuntu LTS releases (e.g. 12.04 and 14.04). We also don't have plans on supporting the non-LTS versions right now. We do have plans to start providing Git snapshot builds, and in that context having support for latest operating systems would make sense.

The package in our Ubuntu Xenial (16.04) repository does work on Ubuntu 16.10, but it will have to be forcibly installed (e.g. "dpkg --force-all -i <package>") because the "initscripts" package which the Xenial package depends on is no longer present in Ubuntu 16.10.

Alternatively you can just build OpenVPN from sources:

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$ sudo apt-get remove openvpn
$ sudo apt-get build-dep openvpn
$ wget https://swupdate.openvpn.org/community/releases/openvpn-2.4.0.tar.gz
$ tar -zxf openvpn-2.4.0.tar.gz
$ cd openvpn-2.4.0
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

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