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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.
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
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:
or using
yayor the vanillapacman -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.
Thank you.
That's what I'm gonna do. Since I'm very new to Arch (used mint before), I don't even know the difference between paru and yay.😅
So On regular Arch Linux, Step 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 all should followed as mentioned in wiki. Also in wiki they didn't mention anything about OpenSSL?
Sorry, that was my bad, I wrote OpenSSL instead of openvpn. That one is probably needed too, but you should not have to pull it manually.
Generally speaking the ArchWiki is one of the best, more structured and well maintained source of information about Linux things even for other distros, but it can too be outdated, so you should always check if the info is valid. In this case it seems so.
In theory you should be able to just install
proton-vpn-gtk-appusing one of the many AUR helpers and it should Just Work™. Paru and yay are the most commonly used ones - as far as I know - and they wrap around pacman too, so you can use them to do everything packages related. Usually Arch related distro use one of them, for example EndeavourOS have yay already installed.At worst when you try to start protonvpn the GUI will not appear or immediately crash: if that happens, usually, you can try and run the program from the Shell and see what kind of error it returns and work your way from there. Checking if the deps listed in the wiki are installed is always a great first step.
Thank you for the detailed reply.
So, I can't install aur packages via pacman?
Also Are you quoting certain nExT gEn gAmE guy?
Nope, you have to do it manually or using an helper that abstracts the manual work away.
AUR packages, or to be more precise the PKGBUILD files, are recipes to compile or download stuff outside from the official repositories, manage their deps and installing them on the system.
You should always only run PKGBUILD files that you trust, they can do basically anything on your system. Checking the comments of the package in the aur repo is a good practice too.
...maybe
Thanks.