tinc is a Virtual Private Network (VPN) daemon that uses tunnelling and encryption to create a secure private network between hosts on the Internet.
*** tinc-vpn on armhf architectures will be available soon. ***
Setup: You must manually connect interfaces to the snap:
sudo snap connect tinc-vpn:network-control
sudo snap connect tinc-vpn:network-manager
sudo snap connect tinc-vpn:network-observe
sudo snap connect tinc-vpn:network-setup-control
Then create a directory in /var/snap/tinc-vpn/ called tinc, where you will store configuration files:
sudo mkdir /var/snap/tinc-vpn/tinc
Lastly, set permissions as follows:
sudo chown username:username /var/snap/tinc-vpn/tinc -R
sudo chmod 775 /var/snap/tinc-vpn/tinc -R
After this, follow usual instructions on tinc homepage...
When referencing command tinc-vpn.tincd, you must provide two options:
-c /var/snap/tinc-vpn/tinc/(netname) --pidfile=/run/shm/snap.tinc-vpn.tinc.pid
and run 'tinc-vpn.tincd' using root privileges e.g. sudo or otherwise. This is to allow tincd to access the virtual tun network device on Linux.
tinc is Copyright (C) 1998-2018 by:
Ivo Timmermans, Guus Sliepen guus@tinc-vpn.org, and others.
Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.
Snaps are discoverable and installable from the Snap Store, an app store with an audience of millions.
Snap can be installed from the command line on openSUSE Leap 15.x and Tumbleweed.
You need first add the snappy repository from the terminal. Leap 15.2 users, for example, can do this with the following command:
sudo zypper addrepo --refresh https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/system:/snappy/openSUSE_Leap_15.2 snappy
Swap out openSUSE_Leap_15.2 for openSUSE_Leap_15.1, openSUSE_Leap_15.0, or openSUSE_Tumbleweed if you’re using a different version of openSUSE.
With the repository added, import its GPG key:
sudo zypper --gpg-auto-import-keys refresh
Finally, upgrade the package cache to include the new snappy repository:
sudo zypper dup --from snappy
Snap can now be installed with the following:
sudo zypper install snapd
You then need to either reboot, logout/login or source /etc/profile to have /snap/bin added to PATH.
Additionally, enable and start both the snapd and the snapd.apparmor services with the following commands:
sudo systemctl enable snapd
sudo systemctl start snapd
Tumbleweed users also need to run the following:
sudo systemctl enable snapd.apparmor
sudo systemctl start snapd.apparmor
To install tinc VPN, simply use the following command:
sudo snap install tinc-vpn
Browse and find snaps from the convenience of your desktop using the snap store snap.
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