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[SOLVED] trying to get protonvpn to work

07 February 2022, 16:12:45

im fairly new to vpns but anyway i saw a tutorial that i can install it with pip3 and did just that but as soon as i was about to connect it said my credentials were wrong i was pasting the hashed one's from within the protonvpn site is there a workaround?and i really dont want to move away from artix back to systemd, my other option would be Gentoo openrc but i am having some kernel issues as i just got a intel i7 3770 and it wont boot hopefully i can get it up and running but ive been at it for 3 days now anyways if someone could help me it would be greatly appreciated

Re: trying to get protonvpn to work

Reply #1 – 07 February 2022, 16:16:14

Support for protonvpn, which isn't in Artix repositories, but in AUR, is here: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/protonvpn

Re: trying to get protonvpn to work

Reply #2 – 07 February 2022, 16:34:08

yes i tried doing all that but it needs systemd dependencies i have read a couple of threads about this issue also that is why i installed via pip3 maybe there is another workaround the only one i got installed is protonvpn-cli-ng will that do the trick?

Re: trying to get protonvpn to work

Reply #3 – 07 February 2022, 16:59:50

i got it going but yet again it wont connect is dhcpd enough or do i need networkmanager and i am using openrc plus do i need to put openvpn in the runlevel?

Re: trying to get protonvpn to work

Reply #4 – 07 February 2022, 17:27:53

I am packaging this, well attempting to , and adding it to my repo and will share repo details, of course, this repo is not official and provided AS IS

Edit: and you might need init script, unsure

Edit2: repo details to be added to pacman.conf (package name: protonvpn)
[revan-repo]
SigLevel = Optional TrustAll
Server = https://ndowens.ml/$repo/$arch

Re: trying to get protonvpn to work

Reply #5 – 07 February 2022, 18:50:07

you the man!!

Re: [SOLVED] trying to get protonvpn to work

Reply #6 – 13 February 2022, 21:02:03

you could use protonvpn-cli-ng from the AUR in the meantime.
I use openrc, and this package is working for me.