On Sun, 19 Jun 2022 18:10:14 -0400, Nathan Stratton Treadway
<natha...@ontko.com> wrote:
>> I am not enough into Linux to get anything useful from this...
>> Hopefully you can.
>
>Well, I don't know how much difference it will make for your overall
>project, but this output shows that you are still running an old
>("xenial") version of OpenVPN... and that package puts .service files
>under both
> /lib/
>and
> /usr/lib/
>
>So I think that explains the results you saw from your "find" commands.
>
>I'm guessing you used a locally-build package for 2.4.7 under Xenial
>(since the Ubuntu repo for Xenial has version 2.3.10)... but the naming
>conventions clash ("-xenial0" is greater than "-1ubuntu" in the package
>version-string sort order) and so the system didn't automatically move
>to the Focal-provided package when you upgraded.
Originally I used OpenVPN since around 2014 on RaspberryPi to access my home
LAN. I did not have an Ubuntu server back then.
Then in 2016 I built the Ubuntu server to handle a lot of other things too, like
subversion and such, and I also installed OpenVPN there.
But I no longer remember *how* I installed it, it might have been done using
some apt repository fiddling so I am now on the wrong branch....
>Anyway, unless you have a specific reason to stick with the -xenial
>package, you could go ahead and manually upgrade to the
>2.4.7-1ubuntu2.20.04.4 version of the package... at which point all your
>.service files should appear together under /usr/lib/ (and from that
>point your system should automaticly offer to update to newer versions
>of the package within Focal, if any someday get released).
What would be the proper way to do the manual upgrade?
Is there a way to find out from where the openvpn I do have is coming and what
is blocking it from being upgraded via apt in that case?
Checking version gives this:
$ openvpn --version
OpenVPN 2.4.7 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [SSL (OpenSSL)] [LZO] [LZ4] [EPOLL] [PKCS11]
[MH/PKTINFO] [AEAD] built on Feb 19 2019
library versions: OpenSSL 1.0.2n 7 Dec 2017, LZO 2.10
Originally developed by James Yonan
Copyright (C) 2002-2018 OpenVPN Inc <sa...@openvpn.net>
Compile time defines: enable_async_push=no enable_comp_stub=no enable_crypto=yes
....
with_gnu_ld=yes with_mem_check=no with_plugindir='${prefix}/lib/openvpn'
with_sysroot=no
I tried this to see more about openvpn on my system:
sudo apt list --installed | grep openvpn
openvpn/now 2.4.7-xenial0 amd64 [installed,local]
apt policy openvpn
openvpn:
Installed: 2.4.7-xenial0
Candidate: 2.4.7-xenial0
Version table:
*** 2.4.7-xenial0 100
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
2.4.7-1ubuntu2.20.04.4 500
500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64
Packages
500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/main amd64 Packages
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/main amd64 Packages
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 Packages
2.4.7-1ubuntu2 500
500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages
Can I just uninstall openvpn and then install via apt to get the latest?
Or will that throw out any custom config I have done too?
Currently over the summer I am not at my home LAN but I connect there via
OpenVPN on my router, so presumably I would have to wait until I am back home so
I have direct access to the server, right?
(Since I would lose connection once the server OpenVPN goes down).
--
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden
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