With the help of a friend, I first needed to manually create a directory called /usr/local/lib/openvpn The errors have been resolved and I am able to compile, make and checkinstall OpenVPN 2.3.7 using the source zip file.
Regards Sebastien --------------------------------------------------------------- Sent: Friday, June 12, 2015 at 8:08 PM From: "Sebastian Rubenstein" <asdf123...@gmx.com> To: openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Openvpn-users] Need help installing openvpn-2.3.7 from source on Debian 7 >Sent: Friday, June 12, 2015 at 1:44 PM >From: "David Sommerseth" <openvpn.l...@topphemmelig.net> >To: "Sebastian Rubenstein" <asdf123...@gmx.com>, >openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: Re: [Openvpn-users] (no subject) > >This is your issue. Not related to the build at all. Do you have permissions >to create those needed directories at all? Thanks David for your reply. Well my knowledge of Debian is rudimentary. Following your observation that I might not have permissions to create the needed directories, I changed the way I sudo. username@hostname:~$ sudo -i [sudo] password for username:~$ [I keyed in the password] (I am in the root directory, right? That means I have root permissions to perform whatever I wish??) root@hostname:~# cd /home/username/openvpn-2.3.7 root@hostname:/home/username/openvpn-2.3.7# ./configure (a list of messages follows) root@hostname:/home/username/openvpn-2.3.7# make (a list of messages follows) root@hostname:/home/username/openvpn-2.3.7# checkinstall (a list of error messages as described in my earlier post.) I would appreciate it if you could help me resolve the errors. Regards. Sebastian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users
