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Use IPOP on Ubuntu, Raspberry Pi and CentOS, Scripted

	Description
Tested on	Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 x64, Raspbian Stretch and Jessie on Raspberry Pi 3 and CentOS 7
Time	~ 10 Minutes
Question(s)	- How to install IPOP? - How to setup IPOP basic configuration? - How to run IPOP? - How to remove IPOP?
Objective(s)	- Install IPOP - Run IPOP - Stop IPOP - Remove IPOP

Note: You need to have root access to run some of the following commands. Running the IPOP Installer with just adding sudo to the beginning of the command is NOT enough. Switch to interactive root shell:

sudo -i

Prerequisite

If the wget package is not installed, you will need to install it:

In Ubuntu:

apt-get install wget

In CentOS:

yum install wget

Launching the IPOP-VPN Installer

To start the IPOP Installer, run the following command:

wget -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ipop-project/Release-Management/master/Deploy/linux/installer | /bin/bash

The default installation directory will be /opt/ipop and you can use ipop executable script to control IPOP.

Note: Make sure you have already switched to interactive root shell using sudo -i before running the above command. Running it with just adding sudo to the beginning is NOT enough.

Using IPOP

First, change current directory to the installation directory:

cd /opt/ipop

Execute IPOP which is ipop executable script right in the installation directory with following parameters:

Install IPOP: (If you have already installed IPOP using IPOP Installer, you don’t need to re-install it. So just skip this command.)

./ipop install

Configure IPOP:

./ipop config

Start IPOP:

./ipop start

Get IPOP Node Status:

./ipop status (This option is not available in this release, yet.)

Stop IPOP:

./ipop stop

Remove IPOP:

./ipop remove

Log Files

If anything went wrong while using IPOP, the log files are located at /opt/ipop/log.

Manual Configuration

If you ever need to change the configurations manually, the sample configuration files are located in /opt/ipop/sample-gvpn-config. IPOP reads the configurations from /opt/ipop/config/ipop-config.json which will automatically be created after running ./ipop config and following the prompts. Keep in mind you need to stop IPOP and then start it again after changing the configurations. See the configuration page for more information about the configuration options available for IPOP-VPN.

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Key Points Summary

• Start the IPOP Installer:

wget -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ipop-project/Release-Management/master/Deploy/linux/installer | /bin/bash

• Usage:

./ipop config
./ipop start
./ipop stop
./ipop remove