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 _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
