yum : Installing openvpn on centos not available

Question

I just installed a centos version on AWS. But I am not able to install openvpn.

When I try: sudo yum -y install openvpn I get this error message:

Geladene Plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: mirror.ratiokontakt.de
 * centosplus: mirror.fra10.de.leaseweb.net
 * extras: mirror.imt-systems.com
 * updates: mirror.fra10.de.leaseweb.net
Kein Paket openvpn verfügbar.
Fehler: Nichts zu tun

Sorry, this is in German (another thing that bothers me). But loosely translated it is like:

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
     * base: mirror.ratiokontakt.de
     * centosplus: mirror.fra10.de.leaseweb.net
     * extras: mirror.imt-systems.com
     * updates: mirror.fra10.de.leaseweb.net
No package openvpn available.
Error: Nothing to do

actually pretty weird. I do not understand why is does not find anything.

How do I solve this annoying problem?

Answer 1

OpenVPN is not available via standard repos available in cent os .. It's available via EPEL repository. First install EPEL repo and then install open vpn.

Step 1: update cent os and Enable EPEL repository

On CentOS 6:

sudo yum update -y
rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

On CentOS 7:

sudo yum update -y
yum install epel-release

Step 2: Install openvpn

yum install -y openvpn easy-rsa

Source : https://www.quickservers.com/en/how-to-install-openvpn-on-centos.php https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-and-configure-an-openvpn-server-on-centos-7