How to uninstall Proton VPN from Fedora Silverblue?

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I’m trying to uninstall Proton VPN to try out IVPN since Proton frequently freezes, is laggy, and IVPN supports Silverblue and DNS over HTTPS (DoH). I used the following commands from this source to install Proton but the uninstall commands from its Fedora website don’t work on Silverblue. How do I uninstall Proton?

Proton VPN GUI install commands used:

  1. installed the ProtonVPN repo by
    rpm-ostree install https://protonvpn.com/download/protonvpn-stable-release-1.0.1-1.noarch.rpm.

  2. Rebooted to update system directories. This makes the repo file available as
    /etc/yum.repos.d/protonvpn-stable.repo.

  3. ran
    sudo rpm-ostree install protonvpn

  4. to get a systray indicator
    sudo rpm-ostree install libappindicator-gtk3 gnome-tweaks gnome-shell-extension-appindicator

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The folks on the Silverblue Matrix room provided me with the following two commands to uninstall Proton and it worked like a charm!

To remove the application
rpm-ostree uninstall protonvpn && sudo rm -rf /usr/lib/python3.*/site-packages/proton* && sudo rm /etc/yum.repos.d/protonvpn-stable.repo

to remove the repo
sudo rm /etc/yum.repos.d/protonvpn-stable.repo

Waited for the commands to complete, then rebooted and done.

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Isn’t /usr/ supposed to be read-only? Furthermore, isn’t removing layers from rpm-ostree supposed to bring the system back to exactly how it was before said layers? (minus config files ofc)

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I don’t know very much about the ins and outs of Linux but those two commands worked flawlessly for me. Andy (@anparra:matrix.org) is the one who provided them, he’ll probably be down to chat with you. :slight_smile: