personal vpn on raspberry pi

Companies are offering ready-to-use VPN services. They provide you with anonymous IP and encrypt your connection by routing your traffic through their servers. Unfortunately, many VPN services aren’t available for Raspberry Pi. Put ExaGear Desktop can help you with that.
Today we’ll tell you about Private Internet Access VPN Service. Although PIA doesn’t have an installer for Raspberry Pi you can use PIA and set up a VPN on your RPi with the help of ExaGear Desktop. Below is a simple instruction on how to do that.
 

VPN setup instruction

Install ExaGear Desktop

1. Put ExaGear Desktop archive with installation packages and ExaGear Desktop license key in the same folder. Open Terminal (command line), move to this folder and unpack the archive by entering the following command:

$ tar -xvzpf exagear-desktop-rpi3.tar.gz

2. Install and activate ExaGear by running install-exagear.sh script:

$ sudo ./install-exagear.sh

That’s it.

Launch guest x86 system

3. Enter the guest x86 system by typing the following command:

$ exagear Starting the shell in the guest image /opt/exagear/images/debian-8

You’re in x86 environment that can be checked by running the ‘arch’ command:

$ arch i686

4. It is recommended to update apt-get repositories on the first launch of the guest system:

$ sudo apt-get update

Install Private Internet Access

5. Download Private Internet Access installer for Linux from the official site https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/installer/download_installer_linux using browser.
6. Unpack the downloaded archive in Terminal inside the guest system:

$ tar -xzvf Downloads/pia-*-installer-linux.tar.gz

7. Run Private Internet Access installer:

$ ./pia-*-installer-linux.sh

8. Install libraries required for PIA:

$ sudo apt-get install libnss3 libgconf-2-4 libasound2 libxtst6

Set up VPN

9. Run PIA by clicking on the launcher in Menu -> Other -> Private Internet Access and set up a VPN.