I’m a linux newbie and would really appreciate some help here.
I’m on bazzite and want to install protonvpn. Ideally the official app, not flatpak, so I can use the apparantly newly added split-tunneling.
Previously i installed both protonvpn-cli and the gui version, “layered on top of rpm-ostree” as far as I understand it. And thats actually not desireable? I think i removed those.
Now i entered my distrobox, which is better for this(?), and followed these instructions: https://protonvpn.com/support/official-linux-vpn-fedora
These:
wget “https://repo.protonvpn.com/fedora-$(cat /etc/fedora-release | cut -d’ ’ -f 3)-stable/protonvpn-stable-release/protonvpn-stable-release-1.0.3-1.noarch.rpm”
sudo dnf install ./protonvpn-stable-release-1.0.3-1.noarch.rpm && sudo dnf check-update --refresh
sudo dnf install proton-vpn-gnome-desktop
sudo dnf install libappindicator-gtk3 gnome-shell-extension-appindicator gnome-extensions-app
(the last one is supposed to install the system tray icon)
But protonvpn is nowhere to be found. (protonvpn --version doesnt show anything.)
Any suggestions or resources that might help me?
The official installation process won’t work, as Bazzite is an immutable distro.
You can install it with
rpm-ostree. If you choose to do so, I invite you to look into what immutable distros are, and what problems they solve (and create).I was curious and searched if it was more complicated than it looked for ProtonVPN. It doesn’t look complicated, but it is not very straightforward either.
You can find how to do it in the comment of this reddit post
You will need to export the app from the distrobox if I understand your problem correctly. I hope this is the correct link: https://distrobox.it/usage/distrobox-export/
It won’t work. The app needs system-level access to work properly, which it won’t have while running inside a container. The Flatpak works fine though.
