Tinc Install instructions for Linux:
We will be using apt to install development tools and dependencies before we download the source code of tinc.
First we will download essential packages to compile tinc as a sudo user.
sudo apt install build-essential automake libssl-dev liblzo2-dev libbz2-dev zlib1g-dev libncurses5-dev libreadline-dev Navigate into a tmp folder.
cd /tmp Download tinc 1.1 with wget and uncompres the downloaded item to a folder with tar.
wget https://www.tinc-vpn.org/packages/tinc-1.1pre17.tar.gz tar xvf tinc-1.1pre17.tar.gz Navigate into the folder and run the configure file to set tinc up.
cd tinc-1.1pre17 ./configure Install tinc!
make sudo make install Once installed, create a configuration directory. All configurations of tinc will happen in this folder. Using tinc subcommands (like invite / join), result in changes to the files in this folder.
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/tinc/ The tinc executable is installed in
/usr/local/sbin/tinc
This means that you can only run tinc as sudo, since sbin directory saves binary executables that can be ran only by sudo (s+bin)
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