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I want to setup a OpenVPN on a Debian

Posted on March 30, 2016

Hello there, I am a total newbie in this VPS business. And yes, i already read the How To Set Up an OpenVPN Server on Debian 8 article. But i got stuck at the very earlier stage (STEP 1). Whenever i hit the

apt-get install openvpn easy-rsa

i got this error msg : E: unable to locate package easy-rsa

Is the “easy-rsa” package has been removed ? Thanks in advanced



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Hello,

Have you had a chance to read: https://wiki.debian.org/OpenVPN ?

The easy-rsa setup is covered here: https://wiki.debian.org/OpenVPN#TLS-enabled_VPN

Please let us know if there is anything else we can help you with.

Best, Mike DigitalOcean Support Check out our community for great tutorials, articles and FAQs! https://digitalocean.com/community

if sudo apt-get update doesn’t work, then try editing your sources list. Although this should be configured already with Digital Ocean.

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