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Brian Pruss, 23.05.2012 03:43

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h1. strongSwan Installation Documentation
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h2. Live testing system





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We have built a [[OpenWRTDemo|small test system]] to run strongSwan without installation or configuration. It is based on a UML kernel, two small "OpenWRT":http://openwrt.org/ images and should run on any x86 Linux system out of the box.





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h2. Distribution packages





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There are currently packages for:





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* "Debian":http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=strongswan&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all





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* "Ubuntu":http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=strongswan&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all





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* "openSUSE":http://software.opensuse.org/search?p=1&q=strongswan





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* "Gentoo":http://packages.gentoo.org/package/net-misc/strongswan





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* "Maemo":http://maemo.org/packages/view/strongswan/





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* "Fedora":http://pkgs.org/download/strongswan





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* "Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS via EPEL":http://pkgs.org/download/strongswan





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h2. Compile yourself





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h3. Linux Kernel requirements





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strongSwan should run on most distros' kernels. If you build your own kernel, include [[KernelModules|the required modules]].





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h3. Building strongSwan





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Since the release of strongSwan 4.x the GNU build system (Autotools) is used to build strongSwan.





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There is a growing list of configure options available:





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* [[Autoconf|Autoconf options for current release]]





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Refer to the [[PluginList|list of plugins]] to learn more about the plugins that can be enabled with the above options.





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The build procedure is as with any autotools project:





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# "Download strongSwan":http://www.strongswan.org/download.html:





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<pre>





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 wget http://download.strongswan.org/strongswan-4.x.x.tar.bz2





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# Unpack the tarball:





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 tar xjvf strongswan-4.x.x.tar.bz2; cd strongswan-4.x.x





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# Configure strongSwan using some of the options above:





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 ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --<your-options>





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# Build the sources and install the binaries as root:





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<pre>





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 make





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 sudo make install





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h3. Building strongSwan on other platforms





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* [[FreeBSD|strongSwan on FreeBSD]] (IKEv2 only)





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* [[MacOSX|strongSwan on Mac OS X]] (IKEv2 only)





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* [[Android|strongSwan on Android]] (IKEv2 only)