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Are there any updates to this? After using yay to install your package, and in addition also installing 32 bit gtk2, I have gotten the software to run and to log in, but when using it to connect to an astrill server, it just hangs at "connecting". It doesnt seem to make a difference what server I am trying to connect to.

I also discovered by accident that if I am VPN'd in to some other server (private server in NY, USA) by some other means (Wireguard), it does not hang. It does finish the process of connecting and authenticating, but doesn't work well at all due to the nature of my having forced the connection. Very strange to me that this only happens on the linux client.

~I am going to try and figure out how to change the PKGBUILD to use the local 64 bit installation I downloaded from Astrill.~

Update 1: No luck, still doesn't get through. What's different with the connection with the Windows client vs. Linux client?

[17-5-25 11:39:59] Astrill desktop version 3.10.0.3073 (64-bit)
[17-5-25 11:39:59] Operating system Arch Linux (6.14.6-zen1-1-zen x86_64)
[17-5-25 11:39:59] Detected local IP: 10.0.0.50
[17-5-25 11:39:59] Detected default gateway: 10.0.0.1
[17-5-25 11:39:59] Initiating connection with server #1349
[17-5-25 11:39:59] OpenVPN 2022.10.11 Astrill Edition x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [SSL (OpenSSL)] [COMP_STUB] [EPOLL] [AEAD] built on Oct 11 2022
[17-5-25 11:39:59] library versions: OpenSSL 1.1.1l  24 Aug 2021
[17-5-25 11:39:59] Need hold release from management interface, waiting...
[17-5-25 11:40:00] [Warning] WARNING: --ns-cert-type is DEPRECATED.  Use --remote-cert-tls instead.
[17-5-25 11:40:00] Outgoing Control Channel Authentication: Using 160 bit message hash 'SHA1' for HMAC authentication
[17-5-25 11:40:00] Incoming Control Channel Authentication: Using 160 bit message hash 'SHA1' for HMAC authentication
[17-5-25 11:40:00] nice -10 succeeded
[17-5-25 11:40:00] TCP/UDP: Preserving recently used remote address: [AF_INET]61.218.132.198:64461
[17-5-25 11:40:00] Attempting to establish TCP connection with [AF_INET]61.218.132.198:64461 [nonblock]

Update 2: I wonder if its not installing the correct protocols? I already had wireguard installed to use with my own private VPN server. I switched Astrill to the wireguard protocol and it seems to be working. OpenWeb, OpenVPN & StealthVPN all do not work.

Update 3: Nope. I installed an oVPN client and tried running Astrill with the oVPN protocol and it still doesn't work. Im at a loss.

Update 4: From here it seems the only server I can log into is LA Supercharged, with Wireguard protocol. I've tried about a dozen other servers to no avail. Also, the Application Filtering feature doesn't seem to work at all.

@Corpswalker They are available for authenticated users only.

@megahertz Astrill also provides deb and SH packages (see https://www.astrilldownloads.com/astrill-setup-linux64.[sh|deb|rpm])

@progandy Astill provides RPMs only

@megahertz you can probably use the .sh version as the source to create the package instead of te deb or rpm. I guess the dependencies of deb/rpm might not compatible with the ones provided by arch. The .sh installer comes with copies of some libraries.

Here are the rough steps to get at the files from the .sh: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2204762#p2204762

@megahertz don't worry, you've done what u could. Astrill said they only support Ubuntu/Fedora, Debian distros. Well, at least building from source has worked wonderfully.

@jenetism Unfortunately, I can do nothing to help you anymore. Anyway, I'm going to ask Astrill to publish a newer version a bit later. Maybe it can help.

This package doesn't work now, I've only get around it using the .sh from Astrill and without pacman, which I take it over any day without being able to use astrill in China.

I've tried reinstalling Arch Linux several times and the "Installation is broken" bug persists. For those who just want to get a vpn working, please use the .sh file from Astrill, it works perfectly.

@megahertz still not working :/ despite having run the commands

@jenetism Just run the first two commands from there as root:

/opt/astrill/asproxy --init
setcap cap_net_admin,cap_net_raw+ep /opt/astrill/astrill