Installation instructions for Debian

Jason A. Donenfeld Jason at zx2c4.com
Sun May 14 00:58:37 CEST 2017


Hey Baptiste,

Spectacular, thanks a bunch. I think I had asked about this same thing
a while back, but somehow I got confused in the ensuing mailing list
thread and eventually I forgot about it. So I'm glad you've brought
this back up. I updated the install page with verbatim what you sent.

Jason

On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 9:05 AM, Baptiste Jonglez
<baptiste at bitsofnetworks.org> wrote:
> Hi Jason,
>
> Could you update the installation instructions for Debian [1]?
>
> Based on the discussion from a few months ago, and given that Wireguard
> now supports Jessie's 3.16 kernel, these instructions should be added:
>
>     For Debian jessie or stretch:
>     # echo "deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ unstable main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/unstable-wireguard.list
>     # cat <<EOF > /etc/apt/preferences.d/limit-unstable
>     Package: *
>     Pin: release a=unstable
>     Pin-Priority: 200
>     EOF
>     # apt update
>     # apt install wireguard-dkms wireguard-tools
>
> I have verified that the resulting setup is functional (with 0.0.20170421-2 on jessie).
>
> Thanks,
> Baptiste
>
> [1] https://www.wireguard.io/install/



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