Upgrading OpenVPN 2.1.3 -> 2.3.x

svenson

Good afternoon everyone,
since the new OpenVPN version was released in january, I want to to update my current version (2.1.3).
My OS is Debian 6 and I have OpenVPN installed with apt-get install openvpn.
I've been searching on the internet to find a simple guide or a how-to but I couldn't find anything.
Have you upgraded your OpenVPN and can help me with that?

taronyu

Doesn't apt-get install openvpn updates it if it is already updated in the repos?

jar

You'll have to build it from source. The experimental repo has 2.3 release candidate 1, but that's not what you want.

svenson

@taronyu said: Doesn't apt-get install openvpn updates it if it is already updated in the repos?

No it doesn't

@jarland said: You'll have to build it from source. The experimental repo has 2.3 release candidate 1, but that's not what you want.

So I have two possibilities:
Wait until the repositories have been updated or build it form the source, right?

jar

@svenson said: Wait until the repositories have been updated or build it form the source, right?

That would be the two options that I am aware of. Unless someone is aware of a repository that you can add. I don't see any but I could be overlooking them.

jar

Hmm. I guess openvpn has their own repos?
https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/OpenvpnSoftwareRepos

Maybe they've got updated in there?

svenson

@jarland said: Hmm. I guess openvpn has their own repos?

https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/OpenvpnSoftwareRepos

Thanks for showing me this site!
One just needs to follow these simple steps (http://repos.openvpn.net/repos/apt/conf/repos.openvpn.net-squeeze-stable.txt) and it works.