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When I choose the Connection Type in VPN Connections, I have only PPTP and I can't find OpenVPN, but I already installed it via terminal with the command sudo apt-get install openvpn easy-rsa

Why I can't find it?

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To get the VPN connection to show up in Network Manager, ensure that all these packages are installed:

network-manager-openvpn
network-manager-openvpn-gnome
network-manager-pptp
network-manager-vpnc

It may be overkill but it works.

Even with this, it worked a little flakey on 16.04. One of my PCs threw an error when I tried to open the .ovpn file. I had to configure it manually. On a different PC it worked OK.

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Seemes like exactly network-manager-openvpn-gnome is missing. I remember in 14.04 it was automatically installed as a dependency. – PocketSam May 3 '16 at 8:39
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Doing sudo apt-get install network-manager-openvpn-gnome should pull in network-manager-openvpn and openvpn as dependancies. – HarlemSquirrel Jul 1 '16 at 12:51

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