Connect to Private Internet Access from their own Program.

saiel

I have Private Internet Access and I have been using it from Qomui but after an update Qomui won't work with various errors. I got the bright idea to use PIA's own app, and while it will install and run, it won't connect. I have searched long and high to find a cause. It is not officially supported by the company but I was wondering if anyone has solved this. I am using KDE Plasma.

dbarron

PIA uses the nettools network tools...and Solus doesn't supply those...therefore it doesn't work with Solus.

saiel

There we go, thank you.

dbarron

I've been meaning to try to decipher the equivalents of the old bsd nettools in Solus, but due to lack of true interest and lack of good documentation in the packages, I haven't made much progress. I believe (from correspondence) that PIA would add the necessary coding if provided with the base routing command equivalents.

Staudey

dbarron Do you perhaps mean the inetutils package?

/usr/bin/dnsdomainname /usr/bin/ftp /usr/bin/hostname /usr/bin/ifconfig /usr/bin/ping /usr/bin/ping6 /usr/bin/rcp /usr/bin/rexec /usr/bin/rlogin /usr/bin/rsh /usr/bin/talk /usr/bin/telnet /usr/bin/tftp /usr/bin/traceroute

edit: Ah, I misunderstood your comment. Nevermind then.

saiel

After some fussing around I got Qomui to work with PIA again. The problem seemed to be the update to systemd.

Justin

saiel What was the solution?

saiel

I opened Quomi and a terminal. I then tried to connect to a PIA server. Then ran
sudo systemd-tty-ask-password-agent in terminal.
It is working fine now, even after reboot. It has been awhile since I used my VPN so my guess is the systemd update borked the very beta qomui.

soylent_snacks

Don't mean to resurrect old posts, but I found someone else's solution and it worked perfectly. See the link:
https://dougie.io/linux/pia-solus/

dbarron

Good solution, adding the old nettools back in 🙂 (well...sorta good, at least it works).

soylent_snacks

dbarron Yeah it is not ideal, but until PIA updates to newer packages, it seemed like the cleanest working solution.