Updating, or removing and doing a fresh install of ProtonVPN

Hi,

I installed ProtonVPN a year or more ago, and it has never worked. The package installed is old, protonvpn 1.0.0-2. When trying to start it, it crashes instantly. Off and on I’ve tried updating or removing it with both the gui and the cli for over a year, but both ways give error messages. I don’t recall everything I’ve tried to get it working. I’ve tried updating it. I’ve tried removing it to do a fresh installation. Here are a couple of my recent attempts.

Via the cli, I get this error:

“sudo pacman -U protonvpn.desktop
loading packages…
error: could not open file protonvpn.desktop: Unrecognized archive format
error: ‘protonvpn.desktop’: cannot open package file”

Via the gui, this pops up:

"conflicting files:

  • proton-vpn-gtk-app: /usr/share/applications/protonvpn.desktop already exists in filesystem (owned by protonvpn-gui)"

I should have started by admitting that even after roughly 25 years of using Linux, I’m bad at troubleshooting technical issues. Any help solving this will be much appreciated.

Thanks

sudo pacman -Rns protonvpn-gui
sudo pacman -Syu proton-vpn-gtk-app
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