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safari

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Registered: 2026-06-02

Posts: 9  

VPN on Devuan 7

I want to use a free VPN on Devuan 7. I'm trying with Proton VPN. The GUI app is Gnome, so I'm trying with the CLI, but

sudo apt install proton-vpn-cli

yields

Solving dependencies... Error!  
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

Unsatisfied dependencies:
 proton-vpn-cli : Depends: python3-packaging but it is not going to be installed
                  Depends: python3-proton-keyring-linux but it is not going to be installed
                  Depends: python3-proton-vpn-api-core (>= 5.0.0) but it is not going to be installed
                  Depends: python3-click but it is not going to be installed
                  Depends: python3-dbus-fast but it is not going to be installed
                  Depends: python3-proton-core but it is not going to be installed
                  Depends: python3-tabulate but it is not going to be installed
Error: Unable to satisfy dependencies. Reached two conflicting assignments:
   1. python3-proton-core:amd64=0.7.4 is selected for install because:
      1. proton-vpn-cli:amd64=1.0.1-1 is selected for install
      2. proton-vpn-cli:amd64=1.0.1-1 Depends python3-proton-vpn-api-core (>= 5.0.0)
         [selected python3-proton-vpn-api-core:amd64=5.2.4 for install]
      3. python3-proton-vpn-api-core:amd64=5.2.4 Depends python3-proton-core (>= 0.5.0)
         [selected python3-proton-vpn-api-core:amd64=5.2.4]
      For context, additional choices that could not be installed:
      * In proton-vpn-cli:amd64=1.0.1-1 Depends python3-proton-vpn-api-core (>= 5.0.0):
        - python3-proton-vpn-api-core:amd64=5.2.3 is not selected for install
        - python3-proton-vpn-api-core:amd64=5.1.2-1 is not selected for install
        - python3-proton-vpn-api-core:amd64=5.1.2 is not selected for install
        - python3-proton-vpn-api-core:amd64=5.0.1 is not selected for install
      * In python3-proton-vpn-api-core:amd64=5.2.4 Depends python3-proton-core (>= 0.5.0):
        - python3-proton-core:amd64=0.7.3 is not selected for install
        - python3-proton-core:amd64=0.7.0-1 is not selected for install
        - python3-proton-core:amd64=0.7.0 is not selected for install
   2. python3-proton-core:amd64=0.7.4 Depends python3-importlib-metadata
      but none of the choices are installable:
      [no choices]

Indeed apt search python3-importlib-metadata returns nothing.

I managed to install it before but I can't figure out how.

Last edited by safari (Yesterday 17:22:03)

kapqa

Member

Registered: 2019-01-02

Posts: 678  

Re: VPN on Devuan 7

this has been shared before,
but you could use the manual approach if the cli is no longer compatible with deuvan<
it used to install before, even though it is for made gnome, but so times it break compatibility.

this approach still function from experience , it is relatively easy to achieve.

https://protonvpn.com/support/linux-openvpn
*how to manually configure openvpn CLI for linux

or
https://protonvpn.com/support/wireguard-linux

i prefer use openvpn since it seem less invasive but sometime on a distro had problem installing openresolv so could resort to thiw wireguard.thing

StinkyEmptyAfterlife

Member

Registered: 2026-05-29

Posts: 15  

Re: VPN on Devuan 7

I'll go ahead and link my post on the same topic, where the links provided got my VPN up and running. Might want to download a few conf files because sometimes one of the servers is slow or down: https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=8021

safari

Member

Registered: 2026-06-02

Posts: 9  

Re: VPN on Devuan 7

Thanks. That did work, in that I can now connect to individual servers. Would still be interested in a fix for the proton app.

dzz

Member

From: Exmouth, South West England

Registered: 2016-12-01

Posts: 118  

Re: VPN on Devuan 7

python3-importlib-metadata is not in testing/unstable repos but the stable version installs here on Devuan Freia..

https://packages.debian.org/search?suit … b-metadata

ralph.ronnquist

Administrator

From: Battery Point, Tasmania, AUS

Registered: 2016-11-30

Posts: 1,685  

Re: VPN on Devuan 7

Also https://pkginfo.devuan.org/python3-importlib-metadata
-- more directly devuan focussed.