Re: How to import .ovpn file

[Carles Pina i Estany <carles pina cat>]

Hi,

Thanks for all the answers. Long story short: I've found the way to
import and sorry for asking. Below in this email the explanation of
where I was looking for!

On Feb/24/2020, Thomas Haller wrote:
> On Sun, 2020-02-23 at 21:50 +0100, Carles Pina i Estany via

> > I have a network-manager-openvpn question, if this is not the best
> > place
> > to ask please let me know.
>
> This is the right place.

good! :-)

> > I use network-manager-openvpn on Debian version 1.8.10-1.
> >
> > The last time that I wanted to import a .ovpn file I was not able to
> > find the option
>
> I don't know. You don't menion with GUI nor where you looked.
>
> On Fedora, the nm-openvpn package is split in two parts:
> NetworkManager-openvpn and NetworkManager-openvpn-gnome. You need the
> "gnome" package to import the ovpn file in nm-connection-editor and
> gnome-control-center.

for the record: same in Debian:
network-manager-openvpn
network-manager-openvpn-gnome

> >  and I ended up splitting the .ovpn file in files and
> > then I did the configuration manually.
>
> Import only creates the profile for convenience, you can achieve the
> same thing by explicitly configuring it (manually). So, that's fine,
> albeit inconvenient.
>
> As such, there is also no fundamental difference which GUI or method
> you use to create a profile.
>
> Btw, there is also `nmcli connection import`. That only requires the
> NetworkManager-openvpn core package.
>
>
> > Do you know if this is possible in the GUI, or going to be possible?
>
> It's possible.

Ok, and I've found how. Sorry for the question - in the past I didn't
find it.

I used to click (translating from my locale to English):
-Click on the network-manager on my toolbar
-Click on VPN connections
-Setup VPN
In here it opens "Network connections" dialogue and I click on "+"
-(here I was going wrong!) In the combobox I need to scroll down and I always selected "OpenVPN", it seems 
that I never scrolled down!
-Click on "Create"

I've always searched for the ovpn importer here in the dialogue when I
was setting up the VPN

Today I learnt that in the Combobox that I select "OpenVPN" and then
create there is an entry that says "Import VPN configuration" and that I
can import an .ovpn file there.

(I've also learnt the nmcli connection import")

It seems to work for me, I'll do more tests to see if I have the same
problems as Greg.

Cheers,

-- 
Carles Pina i Estany