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Configuring OpenVPN

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http://forums.fedoraforum.org – I recently bought a subscription to Privacy.io VPN service and for Fedora it tells me to do <yum install openvpn> but i do that and I get a system message <OpenVPN is already installed and up to date> But i cannot see vpn in my program's list for the gui. How do i find it to make it connect with the files that are provided for openvpn. this works great on windows 7 (HowTos)

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Submitted by xiooo on 03/19/2013

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