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E: Unable to locate package pptp

Posted on February 6, 2015

I want to install my pptp in my digitalocean vps according to the web

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-setup-your-own-vpn-with-pptp

in step 5 :

Step 5 - Setup Clients

On your client servers, install PPTP client:

yum -y install pptp

My os is debian .

root@change:~# apt-get -y install pptp Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree Reading state information… Done E: Unable to locate package pptp

how to install pptp in my debian?



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In Debian the package is named “pptp-linux” so the following should do the trick:

apt-get update
apt-get install pptp-linux

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