Thursday, October 08, 2009

PPTP Client on Linux

I was trying to install PPTP client on a CentOS 5.3 to initiate a PPTP VPN session but it was not as easy as I did before! I had this experience on a Fedora Core 10 which could be accomplished only by a single yum install command! This resulted in installation of the pptp client itself and a tool called pptpsetup which is a text based wizard to generate the required configuration file.
On CentOS its a different story!
First, the PPTP client is not included in the default repositories! So Arrfab repository must be first added to /etc/yum/repos.d/.
Second, there is no "pptpsetup" included and the replacement is an GUI tool called "pptpconfig" which requires to be installed independently also available in arrfab. During the pptpconfig installation from arrfab repository you will run into another problem; some library dependencies are required that can not be founded in the default CentOS repository and to solve this you have to install the RPMForge repository and you are done!
I am still looking for the pptpsetup on CentOS which is apparently gone missing!

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