How to setup OpenVPN in Ubuntu GUI?

Is there an OpenVPN gui for linux?

ubuntufan123: do you have a supported card, such as nvidia, ati etc. ubottu: why what

ikonia: I am only a bot, please don't think I'm intelligent :). ubottu: and why would you not need it

ikonia: I am only a bot, please don't think I'm intelligent :). ubuntufan123: there are no gui's for openvpn - the openvpn daemon has native configs. ubottu: why what

ikonia: I am only a bot, please don't think I'm intelligent :). ok. I need answer to some stuff on the ubuntu page about "Ubuntu 10.04 is already supported for 5 years" and I'm not really sure what to say. My guess is "yes" or "no", but I think it would be more beneficial to know some of the reasoning for that.
tbryant: what? "Ubuntu 10.04 is already supported for 5 years," yes. Why would we upgrade to 12.04 any time soon.
upgrading for "better" packages

Well, because newer hardware (like newer motherboards and whatnot) will run 12.04 just fine, as I understand it, and Ubuntu has always done a great job with LTS releases because it runs better? tbryant: it's supported until 13.04 and after then it's up to release .because "newer"? newer hw should work with 12. Even the previous HW I tested would work newer means better performance yes. I mean. New versions have been running fine for a long time now Newer hardware could mean different things?

How to setup OpenVPN in Ubuntu GUI?

I am using Ubuntu 14.

04, and I want to setup a VPN with OpenVPN. I tried to follow the instructions here: but it seems that the GUI is different from the command-line.

What I did is, I downloaded the OpenVPN package from their website and installed it. Then I downloaded the "openvpn-client-gui" package from the same website. When I run the client on the terminal, it worked. But when I tried to run it on the GUI, it told me to open the vpn connection configuration file.

So, I opened the vpn connection configuration file from the terminal. It is named "config.ovpn". I just copied the contents of the file to the clipboard and pasted them into the GUI. However, when I try to open the connection, it tells me that there was an error opening the configuration file.

OpenVPN-GUI does not support config files, and instead uses a client-side system which allows for easier management of the client's network. It was designed to be used with OpenVPN's .ovpn files, which you can download from
You can use the 'openvpn' program to generate . You can then use the 'openvpn-client-gui' program to connect to your VPN server.

Does OpenVPN have a GUI?

There is a GUI for the VPN service in Fedora.

It's called OpenConnect, but there is also a version of it in RPM called openconnect-client-gnome that will install the client GUI.

The reason it doesn't have a GUI is because it's a client/server VPN protocol, which means that the server and client have to be very close to one another. The OpenConnect client works on the server, but it does so through the Linux kernel which is quite fast. A GUI is usually a user interface, and it takes a lot of time to make it, so a client/server protocol is a better fit.

You could install OpenConnect, as well as other clients like cisco, pptp, and more with this method.