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a solution was found by the user theoldfellow here:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/protonvpn-cli

solution for paru users:

paru -R protonvpn
paru -R protonvpn-gui
paru -R protonvpn-cli
paru -S protonvpn

@Benato12 if you look closely at the previous and current PKGBUILD both require different minimum versions of the CLI and GUI, otherwise the clients would not work due to compatibility issues.

@XxTriviumxX I can confirm that solution works for me as well, but that doesn't really explain why this package is listed as conflicting with protonvpn-gui and protonvpn-cli when those packages require this one as a dependency. Thanks for the help anyway!

a solution was found by the user theoldfellow here:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/protonvpn-cli

solution for paru users:

paru -R protonvpn
paru -R protonvpn-gui
paru -R protonvpn-cli
paru -S protonvpn

i have the exact same issue as Benato12. protonvpn is broken right now, i cant connect with the cli or the gui. probably because of their massive protonmail/protonvpn service upgrades/changes that occured today.

my paru output when i was updating my system:

:: python-protonvpn-nm-lib and protonvpn-cli are in conflict. Remove protonvpn-cli? [y/N] 
error: unresolvable package conflicts detected
error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)
:: python-protonvpn-nm-lib and protonvpn-cli are in conflict (protonvpn-cli<3.12.0)
loading packages...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
:: python-protonvpn-nm-lib and protonvpn-cli are in conflict. Remove protonvpn-cli? [y/N] 
error: unresolvable package conflicts detected
error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)
:: python-protonvpn-nm-lib and protonvpn-cli are in conflict (protonvpn-cli<3.12.0)
error: packages failed to build: protonvpn-cli-3.12.0-2  protonvpn-gui-1.9.0-2

Maybe I'm missing something here, but I'm a little confused about how this package can conflict with the protonvpn-cli and protonvpn-gui packages, yet both of those packages require python-protonvpn-nm-lib (this package) as a dependency. Wouldn't that mean that the two can't be installed together, but they both need to be installed for protonvpn-gui to function? Can someone clarify for me please?

python-keyring should be an optional dependency. With python-keyring, protonvpn-cli saves credentials with a system's secret service (e.g., gnome-keyring, kwallet, keepassxc, etc.). Without python-keyring, protonvpn-cli just save credentials in plain text in $XDG_DATA_DIR. Though plain text is not desired, from the viewpoint of packaging, python-keyring is not a mandatory dependency.

The PKGBUILD includes "protonvpn-cli<1.7.0," and I think it ought to be "protonvpn-gui<1.7.0" instead.

I don't know if this is causing trouble for anyone or not, because I don't use the gui, but I figured I should mention it.

This worked for me: install protonvpn-cli explicitly and then update rest of packages.

yay -Sy
yay -S protonvpn-cli
yay -Syyuu

Got error messages and cannot update :( What shall we do?

:: 3 Packages to upgrade.
3  aur/protonvpn-cli            3.10.1-1 -> 3.11.0-1
2  aur/protonvpn-gui            1.6.0-1  -> 1.7.0-1
1  aur/python-protonvpn-nm-lib  3.6.1-1  -> 3.7.0-1

loading packages...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
:: python-protonvpn-nm-lib and protonvpn-cli are in conflict. Remove protonvpn-cli? [y/N] 
error: unresolvable package conflicts detected
error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)
:: python-protonvpn-nm-lib and protonvpn-cli are in conflict (protonvpn-cli<3.11.0)
 -> exit status 1

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/m2/.cache/yay/python-proton-client/src/proton-python-client-0.7.1/setup.py", line 3, in <module>
    from setuptools import setup, find_packages
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 18, in <module>
    from setuptools.dist import Distribution
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 38, in <module>
    from setuptools import windows_support
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/setuptools/windows_support.py", line 2, in <module>
    import ctypes
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/ctypes/__init__.py", line 8, in <module>
    from _ctypes import Union, Structure, Array
ImportError: libffi.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory