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2. Installation for Fedora Core 2

Each of the links below takes you to a page that allows you to select a mirror site for downloading an RPM file. To download, click on that link, then click on one of the mirror site icons. (Use left-click in both cases. Right-clicking will get you a Web page, not an RPM.)

  1. Download the dkms rpm.

    Install it using this shell command:

    rpm --install dkms-1.12-2.noarch.rpm

  2. Download the kernel_ppp_mppe dkms rpm.

    Install it using:

    rpm --install kernel_ppp_mppe-0.0.4-2dkms.noarch.rpm

  3. Test to make sure the MPPE loads correctly:

    modprobe ppp-compress-18 && echo success

    It should print “success”.

  4. Download the ppp rpm.

    Upgrade ppp with this shell command:

    rpm --upgrade ppp-2.4.3-0.cvs_20040527.4.fc2.i386.rpm

  5. Download the PPTP client program.

    Install it:

    rpm --install  pptp-linux-1.5.0-1.i386.rpm

  6. Download the configuration program interpreter php-pcntl rpm.

    Install it:

    rpm --install  php-pcntl-4.3.8-1.i386.rpm

  7. Download the configuration program GTK+ interface php-gtk-pcntl rpm.

    Install it:

    rpm --install  php-gtk-pcntl-1.0.0-2.i386.rpm

  8. Download the configuration program pptpconfig rpm.

    Install it:

    rpm --install  pptpconfig-20040722-0.noarch.rpm