Technical requirements and installation

Order now | Download | FAQ

Technical requirements

Operating systems: Debian 11+ (amd64), Ubuntu 20+ (amd64)

Real, public IP address on server interface

Domain name for the server

PUQVPNCP

Installed packages wireguard wireguard-dkms wireguard-tools (Included in the installation process)

Installation

We issue all comments after logging into the SSH terminal window as the root user.

Linux kernels less than 5.6 (<=5.5) did not include Wireguard as a feature in the upstream kernel code. Adding Wireguard support to these (older) kernels is possible via additional modules

Check kernel version

uname -sr

Linux 5.10.0-10-amd64

apt-get update

apt-get upgrade

reboot

For Debian 10:  WireGuard is in Debian backported repo. Hence, enable backports as follows, run:

sudo sh -c "echo 'deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-backports main contrib non-free' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/buster-backports.list"

sudo apt update

apt-get install wireguard wireguard-dkms wireguard-tools -y

Checking installed packages

Checking the wireguard status

dpkg -s wireguard

Output should looks similar to this:

Package: wireguard

Status: install ok installed

Priority: optional

Section: net

Installed-Size: 17

Maintainer: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>

Architecture: all

Version: 1.0.20210223-1

Depends: wireguard-modules (>= 0.0.20191219) | wireguard-dkms (>= 0.0.20200121-2), wireguard-tools (>= 1.0.20210223-1)

Description: fast, modern, secure kernel VPN tunnel (metapackage)

 WireGuard is a novel VPN that runs inside the Linux Kernel and uses

 state-of-the-art cryptography (the "Noise" protocol). It aims to be

 faster, simpler, leaner, and more useful than IPSec, while avoiding

 the massive headache. It intends to be considerably more performant

 than OpenVPN. WireGuard is designed as a general purpose VPN for

 running on embedded interfaces and super computers alike, fit for

 many different circumstances. It runs over UDP.

 .

 This metapackage explicitly depends on both the kernel module and the

 userspace tooling.

Homepage: https://www.wireguard.com

Checking installed packages

Checking the wireguard-dkms

dpkg -s wireguard-dkms

Output should looks similar to this:

Package: wireguard-dkms

Status: install ok installed

Priority: optional

Section: kernel

Installed-Size: 1724

Maintainer: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>

Architecture: all

Source: wireguard-linux-compat

Version: 1.0.20210219-1

Depends: dkms (>= 2.1.0.0), perl:any

Recommends: wireguard (>= 0.0.20191219), wireguard-tools (>= 0.0.20191219)

Description: fast, modern, secure kernel VPN tunnel (DKMS version)

 WireGuard is a novel VPN that runs inside the Linux Kernel and uses

 state-of-the-art cryptography (the "Noise" protocol). It aims to be

 faster, simpler, leaner, and more useful than IPSec, while avoiding

 the massive headache. It intends to be considerably more performant

 than OpenVPN. WireGuard is designed as a general purpose VPN for

 running on embedded interfaces and super computers alike, fit for

 many different circumstances. It runs over UDP.

 .

 This package uses DKMS to automatically build the wireguard kernel

 module.

Homepage: https://www.wireguard.com

Checking installed packages

Checking the wireguard-tools

dpkg -s wireguard-tools

Output should looks similar to this:

Package: wireguard-tools

Status: install ok installed

Priority: optional

Section: net

Installed-Size: 319

Maintainer: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>

Architecture: amd64

Source: wireguard

Version: 1.0.20210223-1

Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14)

Recommends: nftables | iptables, wireguard-modules (>= 0.0.20171001) | wireguard-dkms (>= 0.0.20191219)

Suggests: openresolv | resolvconf

Description: fast, modern, secure kernel VPN tunnel (userland utilities)

 WireGuard is a novel VPN that runs inside the Linux Kernel and uses

 state-of-the-art cryptography (the "Noise" protocol). It aims to be

 faster, simpler, leaner, and more useful than IPSec, while avoiding

 the massive headache. It intends to be considerably more performant

 than OpenVPN. WireGuard is designed as a general purpose VPN for

 running on embedded interfaces and super computers alike, fit for

 many different circumstances. It runs over UDP.

 .

 This package contains command-line tools to interact with the

 WireGuard kernel module. Currently, it provides only a single tool:

 .

 wg: set and retrieve configuration of WireGuard interfaces

Homepage: https://www.wireguard.com