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authorAlberto Gonzalez Iniesta <agi@inittab.org>2016-05-10 17:40:25 +0200
committerAlberto Gonzalez Iniesta <agi@inittab.org>2016-05-10 17:40:25 +0200
commitffca24bed7a03d95585ad02278667abe75d8b272 (patch)
tree336f336401e5166e1009e24a6c8d40b97a97af89 /INSTALL
parent9653b1bffea4e96c1eb7c1814e8bed21fea62321 (diff)
Imported Upstream version 2.3.11upstream/2.3.11
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@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@ QUICK START:
See INSTALL-win32.txt
+ Compile OpenVPN with OpenSSL/LZO built from source tarballs
+
+ See INSTALL-nonstandard.txt
+
*************************************************************************
To download OpenVPN, go to:
@@ -71,11 +75,26 @@ REQUIRES:
a virtual point-to-point IP or Ethernet device. See
TUN/TAP Driver Configuration section below for more info.
+ (2) PAM/PAM-Devel (Pluggable Authentication Modules). In most
+ Linux distributions, these packages are usually listed as
+ the following (here is what they look like on Fedora):
+
+ pam-1.1.8-18.fc22.x86_64.rpm (64-bit package)
+ pam-devel-1.1.8-18.fc.22.x86_64.rpm (64-bit package)
+
OPTIONAL (but recommended):
(1) OpenSSL library, necessary for encryption, version 0.9.8 or higher
- required, available from http://www.openssl.org/
+ required, available from http://www.openssl.org/. If you build
+ OpenSSL from source tarball, you will need to let OpenVPN-2.3.x
+ know where the libraries and header files were installed to:
+
+ If you configured OpenSSL with stock options, it will install
+ the headers (i.e. - .h files) in /usr/local/ssl/include and
+ the libraries (i.e. - .a or .so files) in /usr/local/ssl/lib/openssl
+
(2) PolarSSL library, an alternative for encryption, version 1.1 or higher
required, available from https://polarssl.org/
+
(3) LZO real-time compression library, required for link compression,
available from http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/
OpenBSD users can use ports or packages to install lzo, but remember