Open VPN on Centos

Perhaps rpm doesn't follow HTTP redirects? Following that dag.wieers.com URL redirects me to:

http://rpmforge.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i38 … f.i386.rpm">http://rpmforge.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/openvpn-1.4.3-0.el5.rf.i386.rpm

You could try that URL instead, or just add Dag's repository to Yum and install the package with yum install openvpn.

I now get this

> ]# rpm -Uvh http://rpmforge.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i38 … f.i386.rpm">http://rpmforge.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/openvpn-1.4.3-0.el5.rf.i386.rpm

Retrieving http://rpmforge.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i38 … f.i386.rpm">http://rpmforge.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/openvpn-1.4.3-0.el5.rf.i386.rpm

error: Failed dependencies:

liblzo.so.1 is needed by openvpn-1.4.3-0.el5.rf.i386

sighs

I never had this problem with debian. Why is Centos so much harder?

I'll try adding dag's repository.

Repositories are the correct way to go because that's how you get dependency fullfillment. I'm not an expert at Debian, but I believe that "rpm" is the equivalent of "dpkg" and "yum" is close to "apt"

Thanks for your help everyone. I've now got Open VPN installed. :D :D

Just a quick question though. I got this message when I ran "yum check-update"

> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities

Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile

• rpmforge: apt.sw.be

• base: mirror.skiplink.com

• updates: centos.mirror.nac.net

• addons: www.gtlib.gatech.edu

• extras: mirror.trouble-free.net

rpmforge | 1.1 kB 00:00

primary.xml.gz | 3.5 MB 00:01

rpmforge 9604/9604

407 packages excluded due to repository priority protections

Why are all these packages being excluded? Is this normal? On the centos page it said there may be more than 76 packages excluded, but isn't 407 a little high. Could I have done something wrong?

407 is about correct (that's also what I get on my real CentOS 5.3 machine at home).