How to Setup OpenVPN on Kali Linux

This guide will walk you through setting up OpenVPN on Kali Linux.

Before beginning to set up OpenVPN on a device running on Kali, you need to make sure you have a premium PureVPN account and the required OpenVPN configuration files.

1 The OpenVPN configuration files can be obtained by clicking here. Use your preferred browser to download the ovpn zip file.

You will get a prompt asking what to do with the ZIP archive, select “Save File” and click “OK”. It should be downloaded to your “Downloads” directory.

2 Go to your “Downloads” directory, right click the ZIP archive and select “Extract Here” to extract the files.

3 Now go to the ‘Menu’ option and search and open the ‘Terminal Emulator’

4 Now you need to install OpenVPN packages. Type the following commands one by one:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install network-manager-openvpn

sudo apt-get install network-manager network-manager-gnome network-manager-openvpn-gnome

5 Select the following options:

• Click on “Ethernet Network Connection“
• Go to “VPN Connections”
• Select “Add a VPN Connection…”

6 Select ‘Import a saved VPN configuration’ option. Click on the “Create” button.

7 Go to the Downloads directory, select the folder containing OpenVPN files i.e. ‘New OpenVPN Files’. Select the desired file with “.ovpn” extension. Click “Open” button.

8 Now enter the details as mentioned below:

Insert Connection name: PureVPN (Here we use PureVPN, you can change it any other name)

• Select Type: Password from drop down menu
• Insert Username provided by PureVPN
• Insert Password provided by PureVPN
• Click on folder icon from Certificate folder and add the ‘ca.crt.crt’ file.
• Click on ‘Save’

9 Now go to the “Ethernet Network Connections” option and under “VPN Connections” click/check on the newly created “PureVPN” connection to activate VPN.

10 You are now connected to PureVPN!