Proton VPN GUI Will Not Load

Issues & Assistance
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Hello, I am new to Linux and this forum. I am running CachyOS KDE 6.6.4 KDE Frameworks 6.25.0 Qt Verison 6.11.0 Kernal 7.0.1-1 Graphics are Wayland.

I can not get the Proton VPN GUI to show up. I go to open the app and it show in the system Monitor under Applications. I used the command “pacman -S proton-vpn-gtk-app” to install it, that commands comes from Protons website to install Proton VPN GUI app on Arch. I tried a bunch of different things to get it to show, im having no luck. Any help is greatly appreciated!

2

If I use proton I always use the flatpak version.

3

I’m using the app from the repo in Kernel 6.19.11-1, and it opens just fine.

4

Ok I am trying this now using “flatpak install flathub com.protonvpn.www” Thank You!

5

This worked after a reboot, THANK YOU!!!

6

It‘s fine that the flatpak version works for you. However, the version from the official repos works as well.

Did you rank your mirrors recently?

And I strongly suggest that you make a habit of always installing a new package with

sudo pacman -Syu package

to make sure that all needed dependencies are up-to-date as well. This is particularly relevant when using a rolling release distro.

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I don’t know about “ranking mirrors” I am looking that up now. I really appreaciate the package update command recomendation. Im saving that for future installs/upgrades and will also look into that!