PIA on linux

Operating Systems & Open Source Linux
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I am trying to install Private internet access on Debian 8 and i am following this guide https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/forum/discussion/1940/pia-vpn-app-linux-beta and i keep having this problem Couldn't load file:/home/empire/.pia_manager/pia_tray.64/runtime/1.3.2-beta/libtide.so, error: libgcrypt.so.11: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory. I am downloading the package and extracting it then dragging the install linux.sh into terminal and letting it do its thing and it shows that it was installed successfully but when i go to launch it i have the error listed above. What did i do wrong? Does anyone know of anyway to install PIA on Ubuntu 15.04 either? i am new to linux for the most part.

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The error says you do not have libgcrypt installed.

sudo apt-get install libgcrypt
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Terminal showed this. E: Unable to locate package libgcrypt

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Try libgcrypt11

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Debian 8 doesn't have Sudo by default and it is quite the process to get it and add users to the list but i have all that done.

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Same error just libgcrypt11 now

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Well it seems like libgcrypt11 is not in debian 8 (Jessie) yet.
Could you try installing it manually, here's a link for the package download:
https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/libgcrypt11
This package is for Debian 7, but it might work

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now i need libgnutls.so.26

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Its always another one and then another one and then another one. I think i will just wait a little for Debian to add all these into Debian 8

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Well, acctually Debian 8 has newer versions of those packages. The PIA application requires specific versions of those libraries, unfortunetely. I'd probably report it to them since it is still in beta

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I will do just that. Thanks for all the help

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Here's what you do:

sudo apt-get install network-manager-openvpn-gnome
  • Then go here and go to the Advanced OpenVPN SSL Usage Guides section to download the openvpn configuration files that are labeled OpenVPN Configuration Files (Default)
  • Extract that archieve, put them in a folder in your home directory or somewhere you can access them.
  • Open your network manager, click the '+' down at the bottom left, click VPN, then Import from file, add your login details, and locate the .ca cert if it doesn't automatically
  • Done
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Thank's. I was just looking at a guide of how to do that but i will just use your's instead.

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Debian has. You just need to NOT setup a root password during setup, then the first user gets the sudo group assigned, & sudo gets installed & configured right.

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Well that explains that lol. All I did to remedy it was go to root terminal and get into the sudo packet and add my accound as a user with permissions set to all. There was a guide I followed to do that.

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yeh you have to get the network manager as @100557662 said you can do it by command or get synaptic and get the thingy there, then it is pretty straight forward in the network manager.

don't forget to enable LZO datacompression :)