Common installation problems

OpenVPN installation problems can be classified into a few major categories: adapter or driver problems, lack of necessary permissions, and broken installers. It is also possible that the existing packages for your chosen operating system either do not exist or are greatly out of date.

Compiling OpenVPN

On Linux and Unix systems, compiling from source can sometimes be the only way to get OpenVPN installed. There are packages available for the majority of operating system releases, but there are custom systems (Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone, OpenWrt, and so on) that may not have the latest version of OpenVPN available. Given a proper development environment, the OpenVPN installation should be pretty straightforward.

The required development environment basically consists of the following software components:

• autoconf (http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/)
• automake (http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/)
• C code compilers, such as gcc, clang, msvc, and cc, should all...