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How Do I Enable WireGuard in Kernel and Install wireguard-tools?

wireguard-tools comes from the community. If you encounter any problems when using the tool, visit https://github.com/WireGuard/wireguard-tools/pulls.

Enabling WireGuard in Kernel

You can run the modprobe wireguard command to enable WireGuard.

Installing wireguard-tools

  1. Run the following command to install the dependency package:

    dnf install gcc make

  2. Run the following command to download the wireguard-tools source code package:

    wget https://git.zx2c4.com/wireguard-tools/snapshot/wireguard-tools-1.0.20210914.tar.xz

  3. Run the following command to decompress the obtained source code package:

    tar -xf wireguard-tools-1.0.20210914.tar.xz

  4. Go to the wireguard-tools-1.0.20210914/src directory and run the following commands in sequence to compile and install the tool:

    make

    make install

  5. Check whether the tool is successfully installed.

    You can run the wg -h and wg-quick -h commands to check whether the installation is successful.