Re: PrivateInternetAccess VPN and Guix

[oury.dustin@posteo.net]

Thank you! So I managed to get it working mostly okay through installing 
openvpn and running sudo (should I actually be running this as sudo?) 
--config my-openvpn-config.opvn

Note: Attempting to use the gnome network settings did not work and 
complains it couldn't find a vpn connection. Possibly due to how the 
.opvn file is formatted?

On 29.05.2019 05:04, Meiyo Peng wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> oury.dustin@posteo.net writes:
> 
>> So I'm trying to get a VPN up and running on Guix System, but 
>> unfortunately I'm
>> not able to run it.
>> 
>> It gives an error here:
>> 
>> Verifying archive integrity...  100%   MD5 checksums are OK. All good.
>> Uncompressing Private Internet Access  100%
>> Downloads/pia-linux-1.1.1-02545.run: ./install.sh: /bin/bash: bad 
>> interpreter:
>> No such file or directory
>> Downloads/pia-linux-1.1.1-02545.run: line 616: /bin/rm: No such file 
>> or
>> directory
> 
> Guix does not comply with FHS [1].  So there is no /bin/bash and
> /bin/rm.  We do not support third-party binary packages.  Please do not
> install them on Guix system.  These packages will not work normally on
> Guix.  (Yes.  There are dirty tricks to make them work.  But we do not
> recommend them.)
> 
> PrivateInternetAccess provides OpenVPN access [2].  Please try the free
> OpenVPN package from Guix: `guix package -i openvpn`.
> 
>> Which I suppose relates to the way Guix packages software. I know it 
>> works
>> easily on Trisquel at least, but I enjoy Guix System very much 
>> already!
> 
> Guix is very different from traditional GNU/Linux distros.  Have fun
> with Guix!  And feel free to ask questions here.
> 
> 
> Reference:
> 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard
> 2. https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/pages/client-support/
> 
> 
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> Meiyo Peng
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