Install Pritunl On Ubuntu 20.04

August 20, 2021

Not sure why Pritunl getting started guid only details installation on RedHat based distributions. Its not hard or impossible to install it on debian based systems. Read on to know how to install Pritunl on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Installation Process

Update your system
```
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
```

Add pritunl repositories

echo "deb http://repo.pritunl.com/stable/apt focal main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pritunl.list

Add mongo db repositories

echo "deb [ arch=amd64,arm64 ] https://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu focal/mongodb-org/4.4 multiverse" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org-4.4.list

Add public keys for mongoDB

curl -fsSL https://www.mongodb.org/static/pgp/server-4.4.asc | sudo apt-key add -

Add public keys for pritunl repositories

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 7568D9BB55FF9E5287D586017AE645C0CF8E292A

Install mongoDB and pritunl

sudo apt update
sudo apt install pritunl mongodb-server

Start and set the service to start on boot

sudo systemctl start pritunl mongodb
sudo systemctl enable pritunl mongodb

Configure pritunl from the web dashboard Access it from the browser using your server IP to configure it. http://<your_server_ip or hostname>. It will ask you for a setup key. Use the following command to get it:
```
sudo pritunl setup-key
```
Since mongo is installed on the same server, there is nothing to change in the “MongoDB URI” field. If you have mongo installed somewhere, specify the corresponding URI
Once saved, wait a few moments to get to the login screen, execute the following command to get the login credentials:
```
sudo pritunl default-password
```
Once logged in, in the setup screen change the password and specify your server’s domain in the “Let’s Encrypt Domain” box to enable https using let’s encrypt. You can enable WireGuard if required as well.
Now add an organization, a server to it and then users to the organization