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I installed ProtonVPN from the proton site. I can't for the life of me figure out how to remove the remaining pieces of the software. I've done the usual things:

  1. Checked the ubuntu Store (not there)
  2. Purged protonvpn (can't find)
  3. apt remove protonvpn (can't find)
  4. unhid files and searched in Files and deleted all the protonvpn remnants I could find.

Yet, I can still launch ProtonVPN from the desktop icon/application launcher

Any thoughts?

user535733
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    How you remove software depends upon how you installed it. Your description "from the proton site" is too vague to offer advice. Please edit your question to clearly explain how you installed the software. More details are better. – user535733 Sep 04 '21 at 20:27
  • The website has updated instructions to remove the official Linux app: sudo apt autoremove proton-vpn-gnome-desktop && sudo apt purge protonvpn-stable-release Source: https://protonvpn.com/support/official-ubuntu-vpn-setup/ – endroo Mar 13 '24 at 05:43

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You downloaded a deb file. So it can't be in the store.

Proton describes it very clearly:

sudo apt-get install protonvpn

Later in the "notes" they write:

To uninstall the official app:

sudo apt-get autoremove protonvpn
#Remove any leftover files: 
rm -rf ~/.cache/protonvpn 
rm -rf ~/.config/protonvpn

Seems to be pretty straight forward. (RTFM)

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    they should write better software that follows standard uninstall – prismspecs Oct 24 '21 at 11:10
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    this leaves a problem with insecure 'https://repo.protonvpn.com/debian stable Release'

    no longer has a Release file

    https://askubuntu.com/a/310/421929

     – Alexander Glulkhovtsev Nov 01 '22 at 04:22
  • By the time I found this post, I had alredy followed the uninstall instructions from the protonvpn website but ended up getting an error whenever I ran "sudo apt-get update" stating signatures could not be verified for the protonvpn repo. I tried checking the Ubuntu Software & Update center to remove the repo but it wasn't there... Yet I still got the error. I found the repo at "/etc/apt/sources.list.d/protonvpn-stable.list". I removed that file and the error is gone. – IceMonkee Mar 11 '23 at 14:00
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This last answer from iceMonkee helped me. I did have to CHOWN permissions in that folder but is gone now. And I echo the sentiments of prismspecs

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