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@mikijov Yes, worked for me too.

@corbinch if you proceed without a AUR-helper you should start by protonvpn-cli but updating its dependencies first : python-protonvpn-nm-lib depending itself on python-proton-client. This worked for me.

@mikijov that worked. Thanks.

I had very similar error. I am not sure what step actually helped, but the following resulted in me having a working client:

yay -Rs protonvpn protonvpn-gui protonvpn-cli
yay
yay -Scc
yay -S protonvpn

i cleared out both my pacman and yay caches and cleanbuilt this package but i'm still getting this when i try to run it --

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'

protonvpn-cli --

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/protonvpn-cli", line 33, in <module>
    sys.exit(load_entry_point('protonvpn-cli==3.13.0', 'console_scripts', 'protonvpn-cli')())
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/protonvpn_cli/main.py", line 20, in main
    from .cli import ProtonVPNCLI
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/protonvpn_cli/cli.py", line 4, in <module>
    from proton.constants import VERSION as proton_version
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'proton'

I also ran into the same problems (not very handy when killswitch is enabled so no internet). I first removed proton completely but then the killswitch still was active.. had to delete it with "nmcli c delete pvpn-killswitch") .Then I performed a cleanbuild reinstall for Protonvpn packages with Yay and luckily it worked fine again

Unable to run after python 3.11 Rebuilding for the new python failed, -Qoq ,package. Clearing the package, clearing all orphans and cache then freshly built from AUR same error. Requesting update.

@s1zed You just need to rebuild the package after the python 3.11 update.

VPN doesn't work after update to Python 3.11:

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-cli", line 33, in <module>
    sys.exit(load_entry_point('protonvpn-cli==3.13.0', 'console_scripts', 'protonvpn-cli')())
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/bin/protonvpn-cli", 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-cli

I have two questions:

1) I used to use ExpressVPN. When I installed their CLI tooling, it automatically went into my /etc/iptables/iptables.rules file and added some things to route traffic via their tunnel, which can itself be seen by running an ifconfig command in a terminal. In that case, it named itself tun0.

After running a protonvpn-cli connect ... command, I can see the tunnel (named proton0) appear via an ifconfig command, but the /etc/iptables/iptables.rules file remains untouched. I may be missing some understanding, but how can I know that my network traffic is actually going through that proton0 tunnel when I run a protonvpn-cli connect ... command?

2) Has anyone successfully gotten a systemd service written to get ProtonVPN connected on startup on an Arch system? I've seen examples that Ubuntu users have posted, elsewhere, but I can't seem to get it to work. I won't have access to my Arch device for another month or so, so I don't have the error message I was seeing off hand -- something about no key storage found or something, maybe -- but I will try to follow up with another comment containing the exact error message, if all answers containing systemd service examples remain unfruitful on my end.

Thanks