Is there installing instructions for Stunnel on Debian ?
Hi, I don't see installing instructions for Linux or rather for Debian specifically anywhere ?
On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 09:08:20AM -0000, trashrap22@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I don't see installing instructions for Linux or rather for Debian specifically anywhere ?
stunnel should be available as a Debian package; I usually try to update the Debian package in testing/unstable to the latest version that is relevant (sometimes I skip versions that have Windows-only improvements). Right now the version in testing and unstable is 5.68, which is one version behind the latest 5.69, but that is mainly caused by the freeze before the upcoming release of Debian 12.x (bookworm). Um. Yeah. One thing that may have tripped you up is that due to historical reasons, the stunnel package in Debian is called "stunnel4". I have had plans for fixing that, renaming it back to "stunnel", but it is a bit complicated (especially if one wants to preserve the users' configuration settings, which most users may be kind of attached to), so I keep putting it off year after year... Hope that helps! G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev roam@ringlet.net roam@debian.org pp@storpool.com PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13
On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 12:20:47PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote:
On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 09:08:20AM -0000, trashrap22@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I don't see installing instructions for Linux or rather for Debian specifically anywhere ?
stunnel should be available as a Debian package; I usually try to update the Debian package in testing/unstable to the latest version that is relevant (sometimes I skip versions that have Windows-only improvements). Right now the version in testing and unstable is 5.68, which is one version behind the latest 5.69, but that is mainly caused by the freeze before the upcoming release of Debian 12.x (bookworm).
Um. Yeah. One thing that may have tripped you up is that due to historical reasons, the stunnel package in Debian is called "stunnel4". I have had plans for fixing that, renaming it back to "stunnel", but it is a bit complicated (especially if one wants to preserve the users' configuration settings, which most users may be kind of attached to), so I keep putting it off year after year...
Hope that helps!
...and one of these days I really will get 'round to backporting the stunnel version in testing/unstable to bullseye-backports (which currently has 5.60), honest... G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev roam@ringlet.net roam@debian.org pp@storpool.com PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13
Many thanks Peter - that helps 100% On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 11:22 AM Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> wrote:
On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 12:20:47PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote:
On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 09:08:20AM -0000, trashrap22@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I don't see installing instructions for Linux or rather for Debian specifically anywhere ?
stunnel should be available as a Debian package; I usually try to update the Debian package in testing/unstable to the latest version that is relevant (sometimes I skip versions that have Windows-only improvements). Right now the version in testing and unstable is 5.68, which is one version behind the latest 5.69, but that is mainly caused by the freeze before the upcoming release of Debian 12.x (bookworm).
Um. Yeah. One thing that may have tripped you up is that due to historical reasons, the stunnel package in Debian is called "stunnel4". I have had plans for fixing that, renaming it back to "stunnel", but it is a bit complicated (especially if one wants to preserve the users' configuration settings, which most users may be kind of attached to), so I keep putting it off year after year...
Hope that helps!
...and one of these days I really will get 'round to backporting the stunnel version in testing/unstable to bullseye-backports (which currently has 5.60), honest...
G'luck, Peter
-- Peter Pentchev roam@ringlet.net roam@debian.org pp@storpool.com PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13
On 26/04/2023 11:20, Peter Pentchev wrote:
Um. Yeah. One thing that may have tripped you up is that due to historical reasons, the stunnel package in Debian is called "stunnel4". I have had plans for fixing that, renaming it back to "stunnel", but it is a bit complicated (especially if one wants to preserve the users' configuration settings, which most users may be kind of attached to), so I keep putting it off year after year...
Couldn't you simply leave the original name (/usr/bin/stunnel) as it is, and also create a symbolic link (/usr/bin/stunnel4) to retain compatibility with previous Debian releases? Best regards, Mike
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