pritunl-client: pritunl vpn client

Pritunl Client is an open source openvpn client. Documentation and more information can be found at the home page client.pritunl.com

Install from Source (macOS)

If the Pritunl package is currently installed run the uninstall command below. Requires homebrew with git, go and node.

brew install git go node
bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pritunl/pritunl-client/master/tools/install_macos.sh)

Uninstall from Source (macOS)

bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pritunl/pritunl-client/master/tools/uninstall_macos.sh)

Install from Source (Linux)

sudo dnf -y install git-core wireguard-tools openvpn

sudo rm -rf /usr/local/go
wget https://go.dev/dl/go1.25.5.linux-amd64.tar.gz
echo "9e9b755d63b36acf30c12a9a3fc379243714c1c6d3dd72861da637f336ebb35b go1.25.5.linux-amd64.tar.gz" | sha256sum -c - && sudo tar -C /usr/local -xf go1.25.5.linux-amd64.tar.gz
rm -f go1.25.5.linux-amd64.tar.gz

tee -a ~/.bashrc << EOF
export GOPATH=\$HOME/go
export GOROOT=/usr/local/go
export PATH=/usr/local/go/bin:\$PATH
EOF
source ~/.bashrc

go install github.com/pritunl/pritunl-client/service@latest
go install github.com/pritunl/pritunl-client/cli@latest
sudo cp ~/go/bin/service /usr/bin/pritunl-client-service
sudo cp ~/go/bin/cli /usr/bin/pritunl-client

sudo cp "$(ls -td ~/go/pkg/mod/github.com/pritunl/pritunl-client@*/ | head -n1)/resources_linux/pritunl-client.service" /etc/systemd/system/pritunl-client.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable --now pritunl-client.service

sudo pritunl-client add <profile_uri>
sudo pritunl-client list