wireguard-dmks is not needed when running a sufficiently recent kernel (#501)

* wireguard-dmks is not needed when running a sufficiently recent kernel

Signed-off-by: DL6ER <dl6er@dl6er.de>
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DL6ER
2021-04-26 00:59:01 +02:00
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@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
Installing everything we will need for a `wireguard` connections is as simple as running:
```bash
sudo apt-get install wireguard wireguard-tools wireguard-dkms
sudo apt-get install wireguard wireguard-tools
```
For Ubuntu 18.04 and lower, you need to do some extra steps:
@@ -20,9 +20,11 @@ For Ubuntu 18.04 and lower, you need to do some extra steps:
```bash
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wireguard/wireguard
sudo apt update
sudo apt install wireguard wireguard-tools wireguard-dkms
sudo apt install wireguard wireguard-tools
```
If you're running a kernel older than 5.6 (check with `uname -r`), you will also need to install `wireguard-dkms`
If there is no `wireguard` package available for your system, you can follow the instructions below to compile WireGuard from source.
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