no easy-rsa to install on my debian

February 7, 2015 30.8k views
elearn
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elearn

I want to install openvpn on my debian according to the web material :
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-an-openvpn-server-on-ubuntu-14-04

root@change:~# apt-get install openvpn easy-rsa
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package easy-rsa

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  • hasanovuc October 16, 2015

    Try this:
    cp -r /usr/share/doc/openvpn/examples/easy-rsa/2.0/ /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/

  • anasxrt March 5, 2016

    work! with
    cp -r /usr/share/doc/openvpn/examples/easy-rsa/2.0/ /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/

  • cjohnweb April 29, 2016

    What about in my case, where I've installed:

    apt-get install openvpn easy-rsa

    But the directory /usr/share/doc/openvpn/examples/easy-rsa/ does not exist?

    I would like to have the Easy RSA OpenVPN Sample config files and they are usually under this directory.

    :~# uname
Linux

:~# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS
Release:        14.04
Codename:       trusty

:~# cat /proc/version
Linux version 3.13.0-79-generic (buildd@lcy01-24) (gcc version 4.8.2 (Ubuntu 4.8.2-19ubuntu1) ) #123-Ubuntu SMP Fri Feb 19 14:27:58 UTC 2016

:~# cat /etc/*-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=14.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=trusty
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS"
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="14.04.4 LTS, Trusty Tahr"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS"
VERSION_ID="14.04"
HOME_URL="http://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"

    Thanks

  • cjohnweb April 29, 2016

    I answered my own question, so I thought I would put it here for anyone else who needs it:

    I was actually not looking for the config files, but rather the Easy-RSA tools. Normally when you are setting up a VPN you would copy this folder into the /etc/openvpn/ folder and do all your work in there.

    I did find them though, the files have simply been relocated to:

    /usr/share/easy-rsa

    And I copy them to where I need them with:

    cp -r /usr/share/easy-rsa /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa
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5 Answers
andol February 7, 2015

To get a proper response to questions like these you really need to specify what Debian version you are running. For the purpose of this answer I'm going to assuming that you are running Debian Wheezy, which is the current Stable version.

Debian Wheezy comes with OpenVPN 2.2, where easy-rsa is distributed together with main OpenVPN program. On your Debian system you ought to find easy-rsa under the path /usr/share/doc/openvpn/examples/easy-rsa/.

As of OpenVPN 2.3 easy-rsa is treated as its own program, which is why Ubuntu 14.04 has it as a separate package.

Bonus answer: In case you want OpenVPN 2.3 for your Debian Wheezy you can get it from Debian Backports. One good reason to prefer OpenVPN 2.3 is that it comes with much better IPv6 support.

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kubid May 23, 2015

download the easy-rsa pacakge manually using wget

wget http://security.ubuntu.com/u```code```buntu/pool/universe/e/easy-rsa/easy-rsa_2.2.2-1_all.deb

run it !

sudo dpkg -i easy-rsa_2.2.2-1_all.deb
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crcav August 2, 2015

In Debian 8, install easy-rsa by apt-get install easy-rsa.
After this, the easy-rsa directory found in: /usr/share/easy-rsa

or find using: find / -name build-ca

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elearn February 7, 2015

Think for your answer.
My debian is wheezy,it is true that easy-rsa is under the path /usr/share/doc/openvpn/examples/easy-rsa/.

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elearn February 7, 2015

Here is my installation process.
The web material is :
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-an-openvpn-server-on-ubuntu-14-04

gunzip -c /usr/share/doc/openvpn/examples/sample-config-files/server.conf.gz > /etc/openvpn/server.conf
nano /etc/openvpn/server.conf #the same as web material
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
nano /etc/sysctl.conf #the same as web material
apt-get install ufw
ufw allow ssh
ufw allow 1194/udp
nano /etc/default/ufw #the same as web material
nano /etc/ufw/before.rules #the same as web material
ufw enable
cp -r /usr/share/doc/openvpn/examples/easy-rsa/ /etc/openvpn
mkdir /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/keys
nano /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/vars

root@change:/etc/openvpn/easy-rsa# . ./vars
root@change:/etc/openvpn/easy-rsa# ./clean-all
-bash: ./clean-all: No such file or directory
root@change:/etc/openvpn/easy-rsa# ./build-ca
-bash: ./build-ca: No such file or directory

What is the matter with my installation process?
"In case you want OpenVPN 2.3 for your Debian Wheezy you can get it from Debian Backports. "
1.how to change the statement into some shell commands?
2.how to setup the openvpn?

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