gopenvpn is a simple graphical front-end for OpenVPN, the open source VPN solution.It provides a GNOME system tray icon from which OpenVPN connections can be started and stopped, and a dialog from which OpenVPN's logs can be viewed. It can manage multiple simultaneous connections, and graphically indicates when you're connected to a VPN tunnel.
| getting the source |
You can download the latest source from git repository with the following command:
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| installing from source |
| 1. Install prerequisites The following libraries are prerequisites:
[Debian/Ubuntu] sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev libgtk2.0-dev libglade2-dev libgnome-keyring-dev gedit polkit [Fedora/RHEL] sudo yum install glib2-devel gtk2-devel libglade2-devel gnome-keyring-devel automake autoconf gettext make gcc desktop-file-utils polkit2. Build it 3. Install it 4. To run gopenvpn on login, add /usr/local/bin/gopenvpn to your GNOME session's startup items. |
| installing from binaries |
| Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04) Package: http://mirror.sifnt.net.au/linux/dists/jaunty/main/binary-i386/gopenvpn_0.6-0sifnt_i386.deb Diff: http://mirror.sifnt.net.au/linux/dists/jaunty/main/source/gopenvpn_0.6-0sifnt.diff.gz If you're a Ubuntu user it's probably easier to just add the following sources to apt, that way you can just use apt-get install gopenvpn and apt-get source gopenvpn: deb http://mirror.sifnt.net.au/linux jaunty main deb-src http://mirror.sifnt.net.au/linux jaunty mainRed Hat Enterprise Linux / CentOS 5 i386 package: gopenvpn-0.6-2.el5.astc.i386.rpm x86_64 package: gopenvpn-0.6-2.el5.astc.x86_64.rpm source package: gopenvpn-0.6-2.el5.astc.src.rpm The command to install the RPMs on RHEL/CentOS 5.3 would be: yum --enablerepo=rpmforge install <package-name> |
| configuration files |
| gopenvpn will look in the
directory /etc/openvpn for OpenVPN configuration files. OpenVPN
configuration files with suffixes ".conf" and ".ovpn" are recognized.
Any configuration files found will appear in gopenvpn's context menu. Note that the stable gopenvpn ships with a setuid executable "gopenvpnstart" which is used to start VPN connections without entering a password to gain administrator privileges. The assumption is that OpenVPN configuration files in the /etc/openvpn directory on a desktop computer are safe to be initiated by an ordinary user. If you are concerned about the setuid executable, you can #define USE_GKSU in gopenvpn.c and remove gopenvpnstart. This will cause gopenvpn to ask for administrator privileges via a gksu dialog box whenever you start a connection. The next release will use PolicyKit instead and gopenvpn will ship with a default policy where the user is asked for its password to start an OpenVPN connection. To edit the configuration, the root password would have to be provided. This is partly implemented in the git repository already. |
| using gopenvpn |
You can launch gopenvpn manually/usr/local/bin/gopenvpn... or add it to your GNOME session's startup items so that it starts up whenever you login to your computer. Once gopenvpn is loaded, its system tray icon will appear. The tray icon appears RED when no connection is active, YELLOW and blinking when a connection is being made, and GREEN when one or more connections is active. Right-click on the tray icon to display the gopenvpn context menu. The context menu lists all the VPN connections available to connect, as determined by gopenvpn's scan of the /etc/openvpn directory for OpenVPN configuration files. The OpenVPN log for each connection can be viewed in the Details dialog box, accessible from the "Details..." menu item on the context menu.  |
from http://gopenvpn.sourceforge.net/
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安装gOpenVPN（我以前在ubuntu里使用过network-manager-openvpn，可是这次总是不成功，对network-manager- openvpn感兴趣的可以看http://www.tuvpn.com/tutoralcont.php?ln=zh&id=128）
打开终端输入以下命令
wget http://mirror.sifnt.net.au/linux/dists/jaunty/main/binary-i386/gopenvpn_0.6-0sifnt_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i gopenvpn_0.6-0sifnt_i386.deb
（如果不成功请去其官网http://gopenvpn.sourceforge.net/下载安装）
建立VPN连接
把你的openvpn的配置文件复制到/etc/openvpn目录（需要以管理员权限打开此目录）
在菜单互联网目录下找到gOpenVPN运行后会在右上角出现一个含vpn字样的红色图标，右键选择你的配置开始连接等图标变成绿色就表示连接成功可以翻墙了，