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Thus I ask people not to flag this as out-of-date for the following reasons: - v4 is a total new implementation and another package, thus marking this as out-of-date is pointless because a new AUR package has to be created for this new version - I won't be either orphaning these packages because there are still people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

UPDATE: This was broken after a system update. A re-install fixed this.

$ protonvpn-gui 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/protonvpn-gui", line 33, in <module>
    sys.exit(load_entry_point('protonvpn-gui==2.1.1', 'console_scripts', 'protonvpn-gui')())
  File "/usr/bin/protonvpn-gui", line 22, in importlib_load_entry_point
    for entry_point in distribution(dist_name).entry_points
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/importlib/metadata.py", line 524, in distribution
    return Distribution.from_name(distribution_name)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/importlib/metadata.py", line 187, in from_name
    raise PackageNotFoundError(name)
importlib.metadata.PackageNotFoundError: protonvpn-gui

@calexandru2018 Good point, I hadn't considered that. How about this:

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index b51814b..cbe13e9 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@

 pkgname=protonvpn-linux-gui
 pkgver=2.1.1
-pkgrel=1
+pkgrel=2
 pkgdesc="ProtonVPN Linux application"
 arch=("x86_64")
 url="https://github.com/ProtonVPN/linux-gui/"
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ package() {
    python setup.py install --optimize=1 --root="$pkgdir"
    install -d -m755 "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications"

+_pydir=$(python -c 'import site; print(site.getsitepackages()[0])')
+
 # Gui Desktop Icon
 cat <<EOF > "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/protonvpn-gui.desktop"
 [Desktop Entry]
@@ -24,7 +26,7 @@ Name=ProtonVPN GUI
 Version=2.0.0
 Comment=${pkgdesc}
 Exec=protonvpn-gui
-Icon=/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/linux_gui/resources/img/logo/protonvpn_logo.png
+Icon=${_pydir}/linux_gui/resources/img/logo/protonvpn_logo.png
 Terminal=false
 StartupNotify=false
 Type=Application
@@ -38,7 +40,7 @@ Name=ProtonVPN GUI Tray
 Version=2.0.0
 Comment=Unofficial ProtonVPN GUI Tray
 Exec=protonvpn-tray
-Icon=/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/linux_gui/resources/img/logo/protonvpn_logo.png
+Icon=${_pydir}/linux_gui/resources/img/logo/protonvpn_logo.png
 Terminal=false
 StartupNotify=false
 Type=Application

Hey @rharish thanks for the heads up. I'm trying to find a more elegant solution to that problem, as I don't want hard-code the python path, as users might prefer to use other python versions. Also, arch-based distros might also user different versions.

@calexandru2018 The icons are hardcoded to the Python 3.8 path, whereas Arch Linux has upgraded to Python 3.9. Here's the diff for the corrected PKGBUILD:

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index b51814b..706b7d3 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@

 pkgname=protonvpn-linux-gui
 pkgver=2.1.1
-pkgrel=1
+pkgrel=2
 pkgdesc="ProtonVPN Linux application"
 arch=("x86_64")
 url="https://github.com/ProtonVPN/linux-gui/"
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Name=ProtonVPN GUI
 Version=2.0.0
 Comment=${pkgdesc}
 Exec=protonvpn-gui
-Icon=/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/linux_gui/resources/img/logo/protonvpn_logo.png
+Icon=/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/linux_gui/resources/img/logo/protonvpn_logo.png
 Terminal=false
 StartupNotify=false
 Type=Application
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ Name=ProtonVPN GUI Tray
 Version=2.0.0
 Comment=Unofficial ProtonVPN GUI Tray
 Exec=protonvpn-tray
-Icon=/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/linux_gui/resources/img/logo/protonvpn_logo.png
+Icon=/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/linux_gui/resources/img/logo/protonvpn_logo.png
 Terminal=false
 StartupNotify=false
 Type=Application

@miss_barfin could you please create an issue on Github and provide as much detail as possible ? :)

it complains about polkit not being enabled while i have polkit packages installed

pacman -Q | grep polkit lib32-polkit 0.116-1 polkit 0.116-5 polkit-gnome 0.105-4 polkit-qt5 0.113.0-2

@jfk and @miss_barfin

This has already been posted in the issues. Please look here: https://github.com/ProtonVPN/linux-gui/issues/83

Got this any idea?

ImportError: cannot import name 'make_ovpn_template' from 'protonvpn_cli.utils' (/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/protonvpn_cli/utils.py)

EDIT: sorry same as @miss_barfin

https://pastebin.com/PeNMUPcT doesn't run