From 7369420d5db6ebe7dc2f1ae596193f1ea6066f23 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Samuli=20Sepp=C3=A4nen?= Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 21:55:45 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] Improve LZO, PAM and OpenSSL documentation MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Patch provided by Trac user dogbert2 Trac #590 Signed-off-by: Samuli Seppänen Acked-by: Gert Doering Message-Id: <1462820145-24669-1-git-send-email-samuli@openvpn.net> URL: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.openvpn.devel/11627 Signed-off-by: Gert Doering --- INSTALL | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 61dc9758..d914ed2e 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -16,6 +16,10 @@ QUICK START: See INSTALL-win32.txt + Compile OpenVPN with OpenSSL/LZO built from source tarballs + + See INSTALL-nonstandard.txt + ************************************************************************* To download OpenVPN, go to: @@ -71,11 +75,26 @@ REQUIRES: a virtual point-to-point IP or Ethernet device. See TUN/TAP Driver Configuration section below for more info. + (2) PAM/PAM-Devel (Pluggable Authentication Modules). In most + Linux distributions, these packages are usually listed as + the following (here is what they look like on Fedora): + + pam-1.1.8-18.fc22.x86_64.rpm (64-bit package) + pam-devel-1.1.8-18.fc.22.x86_64.rpm (64-bit package) + OPTIONAL (but recommended): (1) OpenSSL library, necessary for encryption, version 0.9.8 or higher - required, available from http://www.openssl.org/ + required, available from http://www.openssl.org/. If you build + OpenSSL from source tarball, you will need to let OpenVPN-2.3.x + know where the libraries and header files were installed to: + + If you configured OpenSSL with stock options, it will install + the headers (i.e. - .h files) in /usr/local/ssl/include and + the libraries (i.e. - .a or .so files) in /usr/local/ssl/lib/openssl + (2) PolarSSL library, an alternative for encryption, version 1.1 or higher required, available from https://polarssl.org/ + (3) LZO real-time compression library, required for link compression, available from http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/ OpenBSD users can use ports or packages to install lzo, but remember