Proton VPN stopped working after PureOS update

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I did upgrade to PureOS 11, re-install Proton VPN and it is working. Whew!

Thank you for all your help.

Tom

I found out Proton installs third party repositories, but they are not listed in the software manager.

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Thanks for sharing this. I’m having the same issue. Could you please share how you removed ProtonVPN? Did you do it through the Terminal? If so, what command did you use? Many thanks!

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I think you can use the Terminal/Console app and enter this command:

sudo apt remove proton-vpn-cli protonvpn-app

I’m not sure what other packages are involved. If you manually edit your /etc/apt/sources.list file, you most likely don’t need to uninstall the Proton apps.

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Yes I used the terminal to execute the following commands:

Uninstall the Proton VPN repository package using the following command in Terminal:

sudo apt purge “protonvpn*”

Uninstall the Proton VPN application with:

sudo apt autoremove proton-vpn-gnome-desktop

Remove any leftover application cache and data files:

cd ~/.cache/Proton && rm -rf VPN

cd ~/.config/Proton && rm -rf VPN

Reboot the system

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