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[SOLVED] ProtonVPN on Arch Linux (CachyOS) ?

How to install ProtonVPN in Arch Linux (CachyOS) ?

Should I follow https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/ProtonVPN ?

from flathub https://flathub.org/apps/com.protonvpn.www ?

This flatpak has Unverified tag, but according to this, this flatpak is safe.

Which one should I follow ?

Asking this because I'm because I'm a bit lazy to configure OpenVPN and all that stuff. (pls don't kill me :)

Also do you think using VPN from flatpak is a good idea?

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I can attest that this AUR package, which is the one indicated in the wiki, works fine on EndeavourOS, but I had to add the gnome key wallet (IIRC) to handle the VPN keys. I think that was fixed.

I have no experience with CachyOS.

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- So i don't have do step 1.1 and 1.2 ? Directly install aur package mentioned in 1.3?
  
  Referring this https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/ProtonVPN
  
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  Reading rorschac's comment I assume both OpenSSL and wireguard are already installed on CachyOS, or anyway pulled by the aur package.
  
  If you want to make sure you can install them explicitly before protonvpn:
  
  paru openvpn wireguard-tools
  
  or using yay or the vanilla pacman -Syu --needed openvpn wireguard-tools (it will sync and update the system too) or how it is suggested for CachyOS to install packages. I repeat I've no direct experience with that one.
  
  If you are scared to mess things up you can always spin up a VM with CachyOS and try to install it inside that. If it all works you can then do the same on your main OS.
  
  As a general advice, only run in your shell commands that you are sure about.
  
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You could also just grab a wire guard configuration and use it too. They provide them along side the openvpn configs

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- This is what I do. I can control it through nm-applet and have Proton, PIA, and my work VPN all set up as profiles.
  
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  But if I downloaded all configs from proton, wouldn't it be a looong list in nm-applet?
  
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- Thank you. It's just that I prefer more of a GUI way. (Doesn't mean I hate terminal or anything)
  
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  It’s all good, hope you find a solution that works best for you 😊
  
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I personally use the proton-vpn-gtk-app from AUR ( the 1.3 section from wiki ). And in cachyOS, i only had to do

paru -S proton-vpn-gtk-app
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- +1 in favor of using proton-vpn-gtk-app. That's what I use.
  
  I use yay with regular Arch, but any AUR helper on CachyOS should be the same thing.
  
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  Thank you.
  
  but any AUR helper on CachyOS should be the same thing.
  
  Why would you say that?
  
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- So i don't have do step 1.1 and 1.2 ? Directly install aur package mentioned in 1.3?
  
  Referring this https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/ProtonVPN
  
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I spent hours trying to set up the GUI and couldn't get it to work. Tried the AUR, Flatpack etc and no luck. In the end I just set up the command line version of open VPN with an Alias.

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- I’ve been running proton in arch for a while now - both aur and flatpak, as well as the new flatpak mentioned.
  
  I found in some obscure reddit post the solution to what I think is a lot of people’s issues.
  
  I need to install network-manager-applet every time. As soon as I do, proton vpn works just fine. This is on gnome.
  
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- 😿
  
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I used OpenVPN via the kde plasma settings app.

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- You mean you downloaded all the OpenVPN profiles by Proton and imported it to settings?
  
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  Yeah, compared to the desktop apps it sucks. But it’ll get the job done.
  
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