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.

For pre-release instructions see Pre-releases

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 23.10#

$ 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

Ubuntu 24.04#

$ 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/ noble 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 (39 & 40)#

$ 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

NixOS#

The Linux client currently is in the NixOS unstable channel. If you are running the stable channel you need to wait for NixOS 24.05 to release or import it from the unstable channel in your configuration.

The package name is eduvpn-client so you can just do:

nix-env -iA nixpkgs.eduvpn-client

or using the new Nix command (if you have it enabled with flakes)

nix run nixpkgs#eduvpn-client

The client needs NetworkManager, so make sure networking.networkmanager.enable = true; is set in your configuration.nix.

Of course, you can also just add the eduvpn-client package to your configuration.nix or home.nix (in case you’re using home-manager).

Note that on NixOS the firewall can be pretty strict, see The NixOS Wiki on how to allow WireGuard connections. OpenVPN should work out of the box.

Arch (Unofficial)#

There is an unofficial package in the Arch User Repository (AUR). Make sure to first import the gpg signing key:

$ curl https://app.eduvpn.org/linux/v4/deb/app+linux@eduvpn.org.asc | gpg --import -

Then build and install using your preferred AUR helper, e.g. pamac:

$ pamac build python-eduvpn-client

or yay:

$ yay -S python-eduvpn-client

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 \
    python3-gi \
    python3-setuptools \
    python3-pytest \
    python3-wheel \
    network-manager-openvpn-gnome

For Fedora:

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

For openSUSE Tumbleweed:

$ sudo zypper install \
    libnotify \
    libsecret \
    gtk3 \
    python3-gobject \
    python3-pytest \
    python3-cairo-devel \
    gobject-introspection-devel \
    typelib-1_0-Notify-0_7 \
    typelib-1_0-Secret-1 \
    typelib-1_0-Gtk-3_0

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]"