Building and installing accel-ppp on Ubuntu

This how-to explains how to build Ubuntu/Debian packages for accel-ppp. Accel-ppp is a PPP based VPN daemon that supports PPTP, SSTP, L2TP and more.

Requirements

Ubuntu 20.04 server. Other Debian/Ubuntu based distributions are likely to work as well.

Build accel-ppp

We'll be using accel-ppp, which is an advanced PPP daemon that supports PPTP, SSTP and more. Unfortunately it's not included with Ubuntu, so we'll have to build it ourselves.

First we setup our build environment:

sudo apt-get install -y build-essential cmake gcc linux-headers-`uname -r` git libpcre3-dev libssl-dev liblua5.1-0-dev

Then we download the accel-ppp sources to our home directory

git clone https://github.com/accel-ppp/accel-ppp.git ~/accel-ppp

We proceed by building the binaries:

cd ~/accel-ppp
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DBUILD_IPOE_DRIVER=TRUE -DBUILD_VLAN_MON_DRIVER=TRUE -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DKDIR=/usr/src/linux-headers-`uname -r` -DLUA=TRUE -DCPACK_TYPE=Ubuntu20 ..
make

Finally, we create the DEB package:

cpack -G DEB

Install accel-ppp

Install the accel-ppp.deb package in your preferred way. I'm using the command-line:

sudo dpkg -i ~/accel-ppp/build/accel-ppp.deb