Wireguard now in Ubuntu distro repos across 16.04, 18.04, 19.10, 20.04
Ref: my discovery post about wireguard on Ubuntu no longer needing a 3rd party PPA for installation : https://talk.lowendspirit.com/discussion/comment/35886/#Comment_35886
Wireguard is now in bionic-updates.
PPA+dkms no longer required for bionic users.
Apparently, there was an official announce by Jason Donenfeld (author) on the mailing list on the next day : Aug 3, 2020.
You can safely remove the PPA config from /etc/apt/sources.d/ if you were previously on it on the supported OSes.
https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2020-August/005737.html
Hi folks,
At long last, Ubuntu now supports WireGuard on releases 20.04, 19.10,
18.04, and 16.04, which means we've got all currently supported LTS
releases covered. For that reason, we're in the process of sunsetting
the PPA that previously provided packages to some users. This email
details possible changes users might consider.The right way to install WireGuard on Ubuntu now consists of a single
command:$ sudo apt install wireguardThis "wireguard" package will automatically pull in either one or two
packages with it:1) wireguard-tools: this will always be pulled in and provides wg(8)
and wg-quick(8).
2) wireguard-dkms: this will only be pulled in if your kernel doesn't
already come with WireGuard.As suggested by (2), most Ubuntu kernels now come with WireGuard out of
the box, even older releases, to which WireGuard has been backported.
This is great news and will result in much better reliability during
upgrades, as well as smoother compatibility with SecureBoot.--snipped--
As a very good general recommendation for people new to wireguard ,
USE https://github.com/Nyr/wireguard-install/ (read the README first)
I have reviewed nyr's wireguard-install script and I am satisfied that it is well done.
I compared it with a manually configured wireguard tunnel, and all the defaults seem sensible.
Anything that saves you time should be welcomed.
Shoutout to @nyr, a long time LET/S MVP.
Comments
Thanks for the mention, because I was on vacation and didn't notice this. Will update the script very soon.
OpenVPN installer | WireGuard installer
Still won't persuade me to install Ubuntu on a server (rather than CentOS or debian).
It wisnae me! A big boy done it and ran away.
NVMe2G for life! until death (the end is nigh)
Let us know how to update in already installed vps.
I believe nyr is referring to the script currently using the ppa as the package source.
If you are on one of these supported Ubuntu versions, you just have to remove the .list file corresponding to the wireguard-ppa from /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
Then after running an apt update, double-check with apt-cache policy wireguard .
It should list a wireguard candidate package , assuming bionic-updates is enabled (the default)
Worked fine here.
In other news, Wireguard support in Mikrotik RouterOS:
What's new in 7.1beta2:
From Twitter.
(I posted this in the pit, @beagle meant it could fit here as well ... I initially didn't want to de-rail a Ubuntu thread.)
Debian bullseye also uses kernel 5.7, which includes wireguard in-tree (as of 5.6), so no dkms needed.
Exciting, but the dates seem so distant.
https://release.debian.org/bullseye/freeze_policy.html
Corona casualty, I suppose.
If Canonical doesn't sort out their snap store BS policies by then, 16.04 LTS boxes are going straight to bullseye I think.
There's always buster-backports, too. My laptop is running buster but with the backports kernel, in-tree wireguard, managed by systemd-networkd.
Any updates?
One could just comment out the lines that import the ppa. The script would use the distro package then (same package name) ?
It is a little bit more involved than removing the PPA, but you can probably do as @vimalware suggested for your personal usage.
I hope to push the update within the next 24 hours, I have that ready and just some testing needs to be done before that.
OpenVPN installer | WireGuard installer
wireguard-install has now been updated.
Apologies for the delay.
OpenVPN installer | WireGuard installer
Thank you @Nyr
Do we need to uninstall the old wireguard script? Then reinstall the latest one?
⭕ A simple uptime dashboard using UptimeRobot API https://upy.duo.ovh
⭕ Currently using VPS from BuyVM, GreenCloudVPS, Gullo's, Hetzner, HostHatch, InceptionHosting, LetBox, MaxKVM, MrVM, VirMach.
Yeah same doubt ?
If you look at the diff's of the script, no real need to reinstall the latest one if your current one is working fine
@chocolateshirt @deepak_leb
Instructions for removing the PPA here:
https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2020-August/005737.html
No need to reinstall.
OpenVPN installer | WireGuard installer
⭕ A simple uptime dashboard using UptimeRobot API https://upy.duo.ovh
⭕ Currently using VPS from BuyVM, GreenCloudVPS, Gullo's, Hetzner, HostHatch, InceptionHosting, LetBox, MaxKVM, MrVM, VirMach.
Just yesterday I installed wireguard from PPA... WHY!!!!!
Somik.org - Server admins cheat codes
It's ok. Just delete the ppa's .list file, and purge wireguard-dkms package to be sure.
You should then be all set after a dist-upgrade.