Installing OpenVPN 2.4.8 on MacOS – Demetrios Lambropoulos

The following steps will use Homebrew on macOS.

Make sure your brew repositories are up to date.
```
brew update
```
If you are currently up-to-date, you will be presented with the following message
```
Already up-to-date.
```
Install OpenVPN with brew
```
brew install openvpn
```

Get brew installation information.

brew info openvpn

You should then receive a similar output as follows:

openvpn: stable 2.4.8 (bottled)
SSL/TLS VPN implementing OSI layer 2 or 3 secure network extension
https://openvpn.net/index.php/download/community-downloads.html
/usr/local/Cellar/openvpn/2.4.8 (84 files, 1.4MB)
Poured from bottle on 2019-12-06 at 13:35:51
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/openvpn.rb
==> Dependencies
Build: pkg-config ✘
Required: lz4 ✔, lzo ✔, openssl@1.1 ✔, pkcs11-helper ✔
==> Requirements
Required: macOS >= 10.10 ✔
==> Caveats
To have launchd start openvpn now and restart at startup:
sudo brew services start openvpn
==> Analytics
install: 6,513 (30 days), 19,105 (90 days), 58,279 (365 days)
install-on-request: 6,050 (30 days), 17,638 (90 days), 52,988 (365 days)
build-error: 0 (30 days)

The brew installation path should look similar to the following:
```
/usr/local/Cellar/openvpn/2.4.8
```

In the terminal, export your PATH as follows.

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/Cellar/openvpn/2.4.8/sbin

Verify installation and PATH are a success.

$ openvpn
OpenVPN 2.4.8 x86_64-apple-darwin19.0.0 [SSL (OpenSSL)] [LZO] [LZ4] [PKCS11] [MH/RECVDA] [AEAD] built on Nov  1 2019