**You only need to do this if your distro is source based**\\

====== Tuan's Notes on Installing Openvpn on linux source distros ======

For most user-level distros:
  * rpm based distros (fedora, RHEL, CentOS etc.) 
  * debian-based distros
you can probably just install direct from a repo.

1. Install LZO
- Download the LZO lib from website
- Unzip the zipped file of LZO
- Shell command:
   + ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared
   + make
   + make install
   + install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/lzo-2.02
   + install -v -m644 doc/* /usr/share/doc/lzo-2.02

2. Install OpenSSL
- Download OpenSSL from website
- Unzip the zipped file of OpenSSL
- Shell command:
   + ./config --prefix=/usr/local --openssldir=/usr/local/openssl
   + make
   + make test
   + make install

3. Install OpenVPN
- Download OpenVPN from http://openvpn.net/
- Unzip the zipped file of OpenVPN
- Shell command:
   + ./configure
   + make
   + make install
   + sudo apt-get install openvpn

4. Starting OpenVPN
- Copy the key files and certificate files to machine (for example: /home/tuan/OpenVPN)
- Shell command:
   + openvpn <config_file> (for example: openvpn client.conf)