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