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How to install ProtonVPN in Arch Linux (CachyOS) ?

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

OR

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 just installed aur mentioned in the wiki and it worked just fine. Didn't need to install anything else in my case.

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[–] odium@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I'm on cachyos Wayland (hyprland) and none of the GUI options worked for me, including the flatpak. The AUR protonvon-cli-community worked out of the box though.

paru -S protonvpn-cli-community

protonvpn --help

[–] gpstarman 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thank You.

Is it because of hyprland in any case? I'm using plasma though, so I have to try myself it seems.

Also, It's just that I prefer more of a GUI way. (Doesn't mean I hate terminal or anything)

[–] odium@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't know why it didn't work. I just tried all the options until something worked and didn't care enough to try to fix the options which didn't work.

[–] gpstarman 2 points 2 months ago