Aloha, I’m being dumb. I tried to move away from using PIA- private Internet access do to some suggestions. I bit the bullet and finally switched VPNs after ~5 years or so.

I know others may say it’s dumb but I was going to try Proton VPN. On my phone, no issues. If I run the installers in Mint though, I can’t seem to get it to install. Tried the Debian install, tried the Ubuntu install, but no luck. Specifically the command sudo apt install proton-vpn-gnome-desktop Will always return an unable to locate package, even while running from the same directory I run the wget commands and such from.

Is there something that you have seen that works well with this? I need to set that machine back up for a split tunnel for a couple specific apps and not others.

  • aqua
    1·
    23 hours ago

    Are you able to download a wireguard or openvpn configuration file from protonvpn?

    You can just import them into the Network Manager Application.

  • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    The wget and dpkg commands on their website are adding an online repository that has the proton VPN package, which means it shouldn’t matter what directory you’re in when you run the final apt install command.

    If you’re sure you did a sudo update before trying to install it and it still says it can’t be found, try doing a sudo apt search command to see if they changed the name of the package, so something like

    Sudo apt search proton

    Or

    Sudo apt search proton-vpn

    If it finds something, then sudo apt install its exact name. If it doesn’t find anything, that might indicate the repo was not successfully installed, and you might want to try doing the wget and dpkg commands again and seeing if any errors pop up in the terminal.

    • LifeInMultipleChoiceOP
      1·
      2 days ago

      I had something messed up on the OS. (Permissions got fucked up I’m sure)

      New steps:

      Reinstalled Mint 22.1 (was on the flashdrive I had laying around) - 12 minutes

      Update/upgrade - probably should have looked for the 22.3 upgrade first (15 min)

      Run 22.3 upgrade - 18 mins

      Install ruskdesk - 5 mins (including config)

      Install protonvpn - 5 mins

      Install jellyfin - 3 minutes

      Map libraries/config - way to long because they were still formatted in ntfs, (maybe 20 mins)

      Same names/hardware IDs mean my reserved IP should stay the same on the intranet

        • LifeInMultipleChoiceOP
          2·
          2 days ago

          Yeah gotta play with it a bit later on. I usually have that server run a split tunnel that auto connects on boot then a delayed start for the apps that are set to go through the tunnel. If I set the auto login to happen, it prompts for a keychain password for the proton VPN app to be able to auto sign in /connect.

          Usually I prefer to set my bios to auto turn on after a power loss and or set an auto on time so if it isn’t powered up it make sure the server is back up and running without me ever having to touch it. Then I just tweak or add things remotely through rustdesk.

          I’m sure I’ll find something in the password management app that’ll make it work eventually

  • Diplomjodler
    3·
    4 days ago

    I don’t remember how I did it but I installed Proton on Mint without any issues.

      • Broken@lemmy.ml
        1·
        2 days ago

        I also had no issue on multiple machines. Follow their instructions and terminal commands.

        Look at the output as you proceed. Seems like the repository is missing so maybe you got an error and didn’t realize a step failed.

      • Diplomjodler
        1·
        3 days ago

        Don’t remember. I just followed the instructions on the website.

  • Kory@lemmy.ml
    2·
    4 days ago

    What installers are you running? Are you following the instructions from their website?

    There is also an unverified Flatpak. Use at your own discretion.