Arch Linux User Repository

Hey all, I understand all on the arch community are eager in trying the new app, thus I'll leave here what I wrote on reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonVPN/comments/17clwac/comment/k5r1qdg):

We’d love to support the new app for arch Linux but honestly we’re understaffed and don’t have the bandwidth to be supporting the same distros that we did before with the previous client (4 packages before vs 10 packages now). If anyone from the community is willing to make AUR packages for themselves and publish/maintain them we’re totally fine with that, as long as people keep in mind that it would be an unofficial version because we currently don’t support arch Linux with the new v4 app.

Also if anyone’s interested: https://boards.eu.greenhouse.io/proton/jobs/4140067101

Thus I ask people not to flag this as out-of-date for the following reasons: - v4 is a total new implementation and another package, thus marking this as out-of-date is pointless because a new AUR package has to be created for this new version - I won't be either orphaning these packages because there are still people interested in the v3, be it in the GUI or CLI

error: could not find all required packages:
    python-protonvpn-nm-lib>=3.10.0 (wanted by: protonvpn-gui)

Also please change "Upstream URL" to https://github.com/ProtonVPN/linux-app

Can you please add network-manager-applet to the dependencies of protonvpn? Without this, protonvpn fails to make a successful connection and leaves the network system in a broken state that requires using nmcli commands to fix (deleting protonvpn-created profiles)

current 1.12.0-1 version

tried to reinstall with rebuilding all:

yay -Sy --rebuild python-protonvpn-nm-lib python-proton-client protonvpn-cli protonvpn-gui

... then got GUI working

error message when starting protonvpn GUI from terminal:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.12/importlib/metadata/__init__.py", line 397, in from_name
    return next(cls.discover(name=name))
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
StopIteration

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/protonvpn", line 33, in <module>
    sys.exit(load_entry_point('protonvpn-gui==1.12.0', 'console_scripts', 'protonvpn')())
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/bin/protonvpn", line 22, in importlib_load_entry_point
    for entry_point in distribution(dist_name).entry_points
                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.12/importlib/metadata/__init__.py", line 862, in distribution
    return Distribution.from_name(distribution_name)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.12/importlib/metadata/__init__.py", line 399, in from_name
    raise PackageNotFoundError(name)
importlib.metadata.PackageNotFoundError: No package metadata was found for protonvpn-gui

1. Anything to support this v3 working as mentioned by @calexandru2018? To me some dependencies with proton.constants are causing issues -- maybe you can fix this upstream..
2. I agree with @rizumu that the description should notify its state.
3. An alternative in #proton-vpn-gtk-app exists by @ali.molaei.

Can anyone confirm (1)? And if so, maybe we can alter the description (2) maybe even by (3). If not, then someone more advanced then myself should make a verdict on whatever or not to spare people from debugging and being confused from this package by flagging it.

For when searching in the cli without all the comment context, it would be helpful if the package description was changed to state unmaintained.

Is it not possible to produce a Flatpak version instead that will work across all Linux distros including Debian, etc?

You can now use https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/proton-vpn-gtk-app :) Cheers

Hey all, I understand all on the arch community are eager in trying the new app, thus I'll leave here what I wrote on reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonVPN/comments/17clwac/comment/k5r1qdg):

We’d love to support the new app for arch Linux but honestly we’re understaffed and don’t have the bandwidth to be supporting the same distros that we did before with the previous client (4 packages before vs 10 packages now). If anyone from the community is willing to make AUR packages for themselves and publish/maintain them we’re totally fine with that, as long as people keep in mind that it would be an unofficial version because we currently don’t support arch Linux with the new v4 app.

Also if anyone’s interested: https://boards.eu.greenhouse.io/proton/jobs/4140067101

Thus I ask people not to flag this as out-of-date for the following reasons: - v4 is a total new implementation and another package, thus marking this as out-of-date is pointless because a new AUR package has to be created for this new version - I won't be either orphaning these packages because there are still people interested in the v3, be it in the GUI or CLI

this doesn't work anyone who wants to use protonvpn needs to use the community client.