Noob trying to set up VPN ubuntu 10.10

JACKRABBit

Hello,

I am trying to set up openvpn running on a VMware Workstation virtual machine using Ubunutu 10.10. I have tried to install openvpn using two different methods but both have not seemed to quite work for me yet.

The first way opening terminal and using sudo apt-get install oepnvpn with the following results:

linux@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install openvpn
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package openvpn
linux@ubuntu:~$

After that didn't work I went to the openvpn website and downloaded openvpn-2.3.0.tar.gz. from there I was able to extract then cd over to openvpn-2.3.0. From here I attempted to use ./configure && make && make install and received the following:

checking for ssl_init in -lpolarssl... no
checking for aes_crypt_cbc in -lpolarssl... no
checking for lzo1x_1_15_compress in -llzo2... no
checking for lzo1x_1_15_compress in -llzo... no
checking for PKCS11_HELPER... no
checking git checkout... no
configure: error: ssl is required but missing
linux@ubuntu:~/Downloads/openvpn-2.3.0$

From what I googled I believe this is an openssl problem so I went back into the terminal and tried

linux@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install openssl
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
openssl is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
linux@ubuntu:~$

So it seems that this is also up to date, I found two other options that said to go to system>admin>Synaptic Package Manager and try and hit reload. Also I tried to go to settings>repositories>download from>other>select best server but after searching it returns with "No suitable download server was found. Please check your internet connection."

I'm unsure what to do after this point if someone would be kind enough to please advise how I would be able to get this set up properly that would be great!

Thanks for your time.

JACKRABBit

Bump,

anyone have any advice?

m.ardito

hi,

what is the output of "aptitude show openvpn" ?

marco

RoelV

Problem:

configure: error: ssl is required but missing

Solution:

sudo yum install openssl-devel

Note that on other Linux flavors (this was Centos6) this package may be named differently, for example openssl-dev orso. Try openssl* to see a list, then hit CTRL-C after getting the name.

In a similar way, if you get:

configure: error: lzo enabled but missing

Then do:

sudo yum install lzo-devel