OpenVPN on Ubuntu 12.04

This howto was prepared and tested on Ubuntu GNU/Linux 12.04 64 bit.

Install the client

1) Install OpenVPN.

sudo apt-get install openvpn

Set up the connection

2) Unzip the file named USERNAME_linux.zip.

mkdir ~/openvpn
cd ~/openvpn/
unzip /path/to/your/file/USERNAME_linux.zip

3) Start the connection by running the script startVPN.sh. Make sure you run it as root so it can setup the routing table.

sudo ~/openvpn/startVPN.sh

4) If you want to terminate the connection press Ctrl+C in the command line window where your connection is running.