Proton VPN & Silverblue

I installed Protonvpn on Kinoite like this:

  1. install the ProtonVPN repo by rpm-ostree install https://protonvpn.com/download/protonvpn-stable-release-1.0.1-1.noarch.rpm.
  2. Reboot to update system directories. This makes the repo file available as /etc/yum.repos.d/protonvpn-stable.repo.
  3. run sudo rpm-ostree install protonvpn
  4. alternatively, to get a systray indicator you may also run sudo rpm-ostree install libappindicator-gtk3 gnome-tweaks gnome-shell-extension-appindicator

If you want to install the early-access version of Protonvpn (Wireguard when?!) , just replace the stable part of step 1 with beta.

Apart from installation, using the ProtonVPN app should be the same for immutable Linux systems as for mutable ones.

This is the ProtonVPN web page for fedora installations, there’s some useful information there.

I’ve actually been wanting to rebase to Fedora Kinoite 36 for two months now, but unfortunately Protonvpn don’t offer a repo for beta versions of Fedora.
Hope you found this useful.

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