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kurt

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Registered: 2009-09-06

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[Solved] Private Internet Access VPN

I purchased an account with Private Internet Access VPN and am now looking to get it set up on my Arch/KDE5 system.

I've looked at the following wikki articles but am confused:-

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pr … Access_VPN
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pr … net_Access

So do I just install private-internet-access-vpn

Or do I also need openvpn-pia and pia-nm

And then I'm unclear on how to use these tools to create a networkmanager connection that will use the Private Internet Access VPN.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Last edited by kurt (2017-05-03 06:06:46)

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Re: [Solved] Private Internet Access VPN

Mad note: moving to networking.

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chris.m

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Re: [Solved] Private Internet Access VPN

The package you need is openvpn;

     https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Op … hird_party

You can configure this through the commandline as shown in the wiki or via a GUI such as network-manager-applet

[edit] I just noticed the AUR packages you linked are specific to your vpn provider. I've never used PIA so maybe that is the way for you to go. However, I'd imagine theres nothing specific that you couldn't configure manually.[/edit]

Last edited by chris.m (2017-05-02 13:44:05)

kurt

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Registered: 2009-09-06

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Re: [Solved] Private Internet Access VPN

In the end I just ran the installation script that Private Internet Access provides. Its linked to from the wikki page (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pr … net_Access)