Our guide below applies to at least Debian 13 / Trixie and more recent releases with an XFCE4 desktop environment. The direction are on how to connect to our PenguinVPN 2.0 Service using OpenVPN and XFCE4 via the network manager. If you need updated documentation for a newer release contact support.
1. If you don't yet have a subscription to our PenguinVPN 2.0 service you'll need to get a subscription.
2. When placing an order select the OpenVPN protocol from the drop down list under where it says VPN Protocol.
3. Open a terminal of your choosing and run the following commands (you will need to enter your login password to install the components needed for openvpn, run one line at a time):
su -
apt-get install openvpn network-manager-openvpn-gnome
4. Make a folder called PenguinVPN in your home folder and then cd into it (change directory) as shown below:
mkdir PenguinVPN
cd PenguinVPN
5. Download the PenguinVPN 2.0 configuration and extract the etc folder to newly created PenguinVPN folder.
curl -O https://www.thinkpenguin.com/files/PenguinVPN-2-OpenVPN-TPE-R1200-R1300-Router-Configuration.tar.gz
6. Extract the archive:
tar xf PenguinVPN-2-OpenVPN-TPE-R1200-R1300-Router-Configuration.tar.gz
7. Once a subscription has been purchased you'll receive an email containing a compressed file that contains the keys to connect to our PenguinVPN 2.0 servers. You'll need to download the file named PenguinVPN-2-OpenVPN-Keys.tar.gz and extract it to your ~/PenguinVPN/etc/openvpn folder.
tar -xzf ~/Downloads/PenguinVPN-2-OpenVPN-Keys.tar.gz -C ~/PenguinVPN/etc/openvpn
8. Then go to the network applet in the top right corner, select VPN Connections > Add a VPN connection...
9. From the drop down select Import a saved VPN configuration... and click the Create button
10. Open the PenguinVPN folder, etc folder, and openvpn folder, then select penguin-new-tcp.ovpn and click the Open button, then click the Save button
11. To connect go to the network applet in the top right corner and select VPN Connections > penguin-new-tcp
12. Open a web browser and visit https://www.infosniper.net and take a look at the country/location the site thinks your coming from. It should generally show some other city/state/country unless you happen to be in the same city/state/country as the server your exiting through.