I have been a happy PIA customer for several years. Using the service on Windows is brain dead simple as they have a program for the job. Running on Linux was equally as simple as they have a Linux app too. Thing is it's built with the assumption that Linux means Ubuntu...
I'm not running Ubuntu anymore as I have returned to PCLinuxOS (yes I know it's odd, I'm more than a little odd so it's fine)
Anyhow I need to set up the vpn manually preferably through the GUI wizard thingy. Thing is I'm really not sure what info goes in what dialog box.
From you VPn download the ovpn file, cert files, and key file. (probably comes in a zip or individually)
put them in ~/.pki
Either open network manager that KDE uses and add the VPN through there by importing the ovpn file, or use that control center program and add the ovpn file in as "import file"
Gents, thanks for all of the input on this, I'll look at this tomorrow. It's late on Friday night here and some whisky has been drunk. Maybe not the best time to be messing with this now. :)
OK problem solved, I'm going to share the fix here because if there is one thing I hate it's searching the internet for a solution to a problem. Finding something similar and not getting an explanation, just someone saying it's fix with no explanation.
So here goes:
PIA have an program for both Windows and Linux. When they say Linux they really mean Ubuntu! The install script using sudo command and if you are running a Linux distro without sudo the install script spits out errors.
I'm running PCLinuxOS it's an independant distro that shares some of it ancestry with Mandrake. A long lost Linux distro, no code but the guy that is responsible for PCLinuxOS was once the maintainer for a codec friendly spin of Mandrake.
On the PCLinuxOS forum there was a "fix" that had you edit the sudoers file allowing sudo to work without compromising the su command.
PCLinuxOS does not use sudo by default. It uses su. I found a way to get around that while still keeping the security level of su.
To use Private Internet Access with PCLinuxOS, install the package sudo.
The PIA client file for Linux gets installed by the user, not root but it depends on having sudo access.
As root, edit the file /etc/sudoers and add the following lines. Be sure to change [username] to the non-root user name that will be using PIA.
[username] ALL = NOPASSWD: /sbin/ifconfig [username] ALL = NOPASSWD: /etc/openvpn [username] ALL = NOPASSWD: /bin/chown [username] ALL = NOPASSWD: /bin/chmod [username] ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/apt-get
After saving the above changes you can now install the PIA Linux client.
