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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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

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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)

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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.

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Makes sense.

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What’s wrong with using the aur package?

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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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If I’m reading that correctly, yeah all you should need to do is install the AUR package. 1.1-1.3 in that section are different options that don’t depend on each other.

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1.1-1.3 in that section are different options that don’t depend on each other.

I think that particular page needs to be bit more concise.

Thank You.

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Reminder that proton doesn’t give a shit about linux support (for any of their products) and you will be better served in the long run supporting a company who supports you. Not one who uses privacywashing as a sales tactic but is perfectly okay ensuring their products only work (full feature support) on corporate spyware OSes. This creates yet another barrier keeping their customers on w1ndows/mac which completely defeats the purpose of using proton services if your OS is sending everything to gemini anyways.

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