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it doesn't work. it installs fine i am able to run it but i cannot connect to any servers.

Building protonvpn-gui... ==> Making package: protonvpn-gui 1.12.0-1 (Tue 05 Sep 2023 04:40:01 PM PKT) ==> Checking runtime dependencies... ==> Checking buildtime dependencies... ==> Retrieving sources... -> Downloading 1.12.0.tar.gz... ** Resuming transfer from byte position 589824 % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:01 --:--:-- 0 curl: (33) HTTP server doesn't seem to support byte ranges. Cannot resume. ==> ERROR: Failure while downloading https://github.com/ProtonVPN/linux-app/archive/refs/tags/1.12.0.tar.gz Aborting... Error: Failed to build protonvpn-gui

Solved: https://github.com/ProtonVPN/linux-app/issues/108

Problem:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3.11/importlib/metadata/init.py", line 563, 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/python3.11/importlib/metadata/init.py", line 981, in distribution return Distribution.from_name(distribution_name) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/usr/lib/python3.11/importlib/metadata/init.py", line 565, in from_name raise PackageNotFoundError(name) importlib.metadata.PackageNotFoundError: No package metadata was found for protonvpn-gui

network-manager-applet needed to be installed for me to get protonvpn to work otherwise I got the error:

Unable to connect to Proton VPN: Proton VPN connection failed due to unknown reason.

@Guea50hj Thank you. Finally, protonvpn works again. (I had to remove python-pep517 as I ran into "Error: target not found: python-pep517")

To potentially address the issue that @Dwa30v was having check out the following link:

https://forum.manjaro.org/t/stable-update-2023-06-04-kernels-gnome-44-1-plasma-5-27-5-python-3-11-toolchain-firefox/141610#additional-info-1

This worked for me. Follow the steps from the above link where you need to rebuild the AUR python packages after a system update helped (I am pasting verbatim from that link):

You will need to rebuild any AUR Python packages after the system update, that install files to site-packages or link to libpython3.10.so.

Print a list of of packages that have files in /usr/lib/python3.10/ :

pacman -Qoq /usr/lib/python3.10/

Rebuild them all at once:*

pamac build $(pacman -Qoq /usr/lib/python3.10)

• Note that if any fail to build, you’ll have to rebuild what’s remaining one or a few at a time.

Use rebuild-detector to see if anything else needs to be rebuilt:

checkrebuild

Have tried what is suggested here, but for me this is not working at all. I keep getting the following error, trying to run protonvpn:

$ protonvpn
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 25, in importlib_load_entry_point
    return next(matches).load()
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/importlib/metadata/__init__.py", line 202, in load
    module = import_module(match.group('module'))
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/importlib/__init__.py", line 126, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1206, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1178, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1149, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 690, in _load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 940, in exec_module
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 241, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/protonvpn_gui/main.py", line 14, in <module>
    from proton.constants import VERSION as proton_version
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'proton'

After trying everything listed here I finally got it to work after I checked the pip list and realized the version of protonvpn-gui was different than this error 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')()) Solution: pip list 1. check your version of protonvpn-gui, I had 2.1.1. uninstall protonvpn-gui 2. uninstall

Now everything seems to be working when I just run protonvpn, did not reinstall with pip