Installation#

The Desktop client only works on Linux. It is recommended to use a Deb or RPM package to install the eduVPN client. You can also install using Pip from PyPi or directly from GitHub. We distribute RPM packages for Fedora, and Deb packages for Debian and Ubuntu.

Note If your target is not supported you can make an issue on the GitHub repository and we will see if we can provide it. Right now, for RPM and DEB, we only provide x86_64 packages (we use a compiled dependency). If you want to install the client on ARM64, use the Pip installation method.

Installation using a script#

Note This needs Curl installed, sudo apt update && sudo apt install curl on Debian/Ubuntu systems. Fedora systems automatically have Curl installed

We provide a script to ease the installation. This script works on the platforms we have official packages for: Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora/CentOS

$ curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 https://docs.eduvpn.org/client/linux/install.sh -O
$ bash ./install.sh

Manual installation#

Debian 11#

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install apt-transport-https wget
$ wget -O- https://app.eduvpn.org/linux/v4/deb/app+linux@eduvpn.org.asc | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/eduvpn-v4.gpg >/dev/null
$ echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/eduvpn-v4.gpg] https://app.eduvpn.org/linux/v4/deb/ bullseye main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/eduvpn-v4.list
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install eduvpn-client

Debian 12#

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install apt-transport-https wget
$ wget -O- https://app.eduvpn.org/linux/v4/deb/app+linux@eduvpn.org.asc | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/eduvpn-v4.gpg >/dev/null
$ echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/eduvpn-v4.gpg] https://app.eduvpn.org/linux/v4/deb/ bookworm main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/eduvpn-v4.list
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install eduvpn-client

Ubuntu 20.04#

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install apt-transport-https wget
$ wget -O- https://app.eduvpn.org/linux/v4/deb/app+linux@eduvpn.org.asc | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/eduvpn-v4.gpg >/dev/null
$ echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/eduvpn-v4.gpg] https://app.eduvpn.org/linux/v4/deb/ focal main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/eduvpn-v4.list
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install eduvpn-client

Ubuntu 22.04#

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install apt-transport-https wget
$ wget -O- https://app.eduvpn.org/linux/v4/deb/app+linux@eduvpn.org.asc | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/eduvpn-v4.gpg >/dev/null
$ echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/eduvpn-v4.gpg] https://app.eduvpn.org/linux/v4/deb/ jammy main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/eduvpn-v4.list
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install eduvpn-client

Ubuntu 23.04#

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install apt-transport-https wget
$ wget -O- https://app.eduvpn.org/linux/v4/deb/app+linux@eduvpn.org.asc | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/eduvpn-v4.gpg >/dev/null
$ echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/eduvpn-v4.gpg] https://app.eduvpn.org/linux/v4/deb/ lunar main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/eduvpn-v4.list
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install eduvpn-client

Ubuntu 23.10#

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install apt-transport-https wget
$ wget -O- https://app.eduvpn.org/linux/v4/deb/app+linux@eduvpn.org.asc | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/eduvpn-v4.gpg >/dev/null
$ echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/eduvpn-v4.gpg] https://app.eduvpn.org/linux/v4/deb/ mantic main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/eduvpn-v4.list
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install eduvpn-client

Linux Mint 20.x#

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install apt-transport-https wget
$ wget -O- https://app.eduvpn.org/linux/v4/deb/app+linux@eduvpn.org.asc | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/eduvpn-v4.gpg >/dev/null
$ echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/eduvpn-v4.gpg] https://app.eduvpn.org/linux/v4/deb/ focal main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/eduvpn-v4.list
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install eduvpn-client

Linux Mint 21.x#

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install apt-transport-https wget
$ wget -O- https://app.eduvpn.org/linux/v4/deb/app+linux@eduvpn.org.asc | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/eduvpn-v4.gpg >/dev/null
$ echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/eduvpn-v4.gpg] https://app.eduvpn.org/linux/v4/deb/ jammy main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/eduvpn-v4.list
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install eduvpn-client

Fedora (37, 38 & 39)#

$ curl -O https://app.eduvpn.org/linux/v4/rpm/app+linux@eduvpn.org.asc
$ sudo rpm --import app+linux@eduvpn.org.asc
$ cat << 'EOF' | sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/python-eduvpn-client_v4.repo
[python-eduvpn-client_v4]
name=eduVPN for Linux 4.x (Fedora $releasever)
baseurl=https://app.eduvpn.org/linux/v4/rpm/fedora-$releasever-$basearch
gpgcheck=1
EOF
$ sudo dnf install eduvpn-client

CentOS (Stream 9)#

$ curl -O https://app.eduvpn.org/linux/v4/rpm/app+linux@eduvpn.org.asc
$ sudo rpm --import app+linux@eduvpn.org.asc
$ cat << 'EOF' | sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/python-eduvpn-client_v4.repo
[python-eduvpn-client_v4]
name=eduVPN for Linux 4.x (CentOS Stream 9)
baseurl=https://app.eduvpn.org/linux/v4/rpm/centos-stream+epel-next-9-$basearch
gpgcheck=1
EOF
$ sudo dnf install eduvpn-client

Arch (Unofficial)#

There is an unofficial package in the Arch User Repository (AUR).

Pip installation#

We also provide Pip packages. These are useful if your distro is not officially supported in our packaging (yet).

Dependencies#

To manually install the eduVPN package via Pip you first need to satisfy the dependencies.

For Debian or Ubuntu:

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install \
    gir1.2-nm-1.0 \
    gir1.2-secret-1 \
    gir1.2-gtk-3.0 \
    gir1.2-notify-0.7 \
    libgirepository1.0-dev \
    libdbus-glib-1-dev \
    python3-gi \
    python3-setuptools \
    python3-pytest \
    python3-wheel \
    python3-dbus \
    network-manager-openvpn-gnome

For Fedora:

$ sudo dnf install \
    libnotify \
    libsecret \
    gtk3 \
    python3-dbus \
    python3-gobject \
    python3-pytest \
    python3-cairo-devel \
    gobject-introspection-devel \
    cairo-gobject-devel \
    dbus-python-devel

Pip commands#

Note If the Pip installation fails due to “error: externally-managed-environment”, we recommend you to try to install the package with Pipx instead

You can then continue with installing via Pip:

$ pip install "eduvpn-client[gui]"

Or, if you want to try out the bleeding edge development version:

$ pip install git+https://github.com/eduvpn/python-eduvpn-client.git