SurfShark

I am making this repository for the making the manual setup of Surfshark VPN via OpenVPN even easier then it already is. Of course instead of reading this you could just download my setup script and use that instead. This will work on any Debian based operating system.

Step Zero

If you are downloading the script you need to do the following chmod +x surfsetup.sh

Step One

Open a terminal

Step Two

Update your system please. No seriously, actually update your system.

Step Three

Download and install OpenVPN and unzip (sudo apt-get install openvpn unzip For Debian based operating systems)

Step Four

cd /etc/openvpn This takes you to the OpenVPN directory.

Step Five

sudo wget https://my.surfshark.com/vpn/api/v1/server/configurations This downloads the surfshark server configurations. All 370 of them.

Step Six

sudo unzip configurations This will unzip the configurations zip.

Install script wont progress past this point.

Step Seven

Type ls and chose a server to connect to and copy its file name.

Step Eight

sudo openvpn {paste the file name here} Once you paste in the file name and hit enter it should do some preloading and we can move onto the next step.

Step Nine

At this point you need to enter your credentials and from there you are off to the races. If you see 'Initialization Sequence Completed', then everything is working just fine.

Step Ten

If you want to stop OpenVPN from running just kill the terminal.