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.

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

There we go, thank you.

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.

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

      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.

        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.

        6 months later

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

          4 days later

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