VyprVPN on Linux

I'm Linux-retarded, but since nearly every website I use is blocked in China, I need to get Vypr set up on Linux.
I found this:
https://support.goldenfrog.com/hc/en-us/articles/203815626-VyprVPN-OpenVPN-Setup-for-Linux-Ubuntu-
And followed it, however, on step 5

To download the Golden Frog Certificate Authority (CA) certificate, type (all one command, ignore line breaks):
sudo wget -O /etc/openvpn/ca.vyprvpn.com.crt
https://support.goldenfrog.com/hc/en-us/article_attachments/205312238/ca.vyprvpn.com.crt

I don't think I put this in correctly. I could not locate the certificate, even though the terminal said it downloaded it...or at least I thought.
Every time I put this command in - including the -O - it said it didn't recognize the command. So I erased the -O and it went through...I guess that's why it didn't download?
Is it possible to just download the certificate off a website and drop it in via a flash drive or something? I feel like getting Vypr set up on Linux is overly complicated, and I'm a bit concerned it might just be blocked when I get to China...lol...

The cert should be in /etc/openvpn

You can use ls /etc/openvpn to list the contents of that directory, you should see the cert there. If you don't see it there then it hasn't downloaded.

If you just want to download it manually then follow your download link, https://support.goldenfrog.com/hc/en-us/article_attachments/205312238/ca.vyprvpn.com.crt

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OR.... easy mode!

locate ca.vyprvpn.com.crt

your in china? where, I have always wanted to go? I know it's not related but it seems cool because when I go this could serve as a guide

not there yet. I'll let you know. Leaving Wednesday Morning.

but where will you land is the better question

Hmm.. make sure your disc is clean dude.

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disc to what?

I have had good luck with Private Internet Access as my VPN.

Yeah, so far Vypr has been really disappointing me. Garbage customer support already put me in a bad mood with their service, tack on top of that how incredibly intermittent a connection is and I feel like i just wasted my money.

I have had a similar experience, when it comes to VPNs here it not always perfect presumably because how tenacious they are to at least throttle what the great firewall gnomes deem VPN traffic or from known VPNs. I have the VPN set up with several different settings and will switch between them daily to try to find the best. Also I noticed L2TP seems to work better.

I'm no expert so I hope someone can enlighten me if there is a way to get my VPN to work flawlessly. Sometimes it just seems packets don't make it through despite tons of trouble shooting with support

The other problem is the lack of LInux support for a lot of these VPNs. Usually they HAVE Linux support, but for a nave such as myself, I often don't understand the instructions setting up the VPN.

In this case, it looks to be the same for PIA.
I have my desktop with me and the VyprVPN launcher on Windows is supported far better (go figure...) so I may have a better time on Windows...buuuuuuut, I didn't pack a monitor for my computer (because it would get destroyed in the flight) so I haven't gotten around to go shopping for a monitor for my computer...I think today I will be, though. Hopefully. Maybe.

Funniest thing during the transit to China was stopping at every checkpoint for them to wonder why my carry on was full of computer guts I wouldn't dare risk to the plane's undercarriage.

Word for anyone else making the trip, don't rock any bitcoin 'paraphernalia,' that goes for in the US too if you ask me

It doesn't help that my sleek Lion Li case looks like a well made, well constructed home-made terrorist device. I had to pull my case out of my luggage twice for them to do a clean inspection of it....and they were very confused when they found a pair of underwear underneath my GPU..."Look....Okay....I don't have a stand to give it support and I don't want it to bend in transit...I don't know how else to explain it!"

@B1gbadwo1f I'll give it a try. I haven't tried PPTP since the hotel, and according to their support hotel wifi tends to reject PPTP requests.

EDIT
Can't seem to get the link to work. I tried googling it and it took me to the link you've pasted above and I have the same issue. Maybe the site is down? Or...of all irony...maybe it doesn't like that I am connected to a VPN at the moment.

one last EDIT (I think):
And I would hate to disconnect my VPN to test and see if that's the problem since right now it's actually being stable. I'll give it a try later and update you here.

If your looking for other options have a look at airVPN. they have a certificate generator, you can generate vpn configs for anything then just push it into networkmanager and your good to go.

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lol, you need to be a little more specific. I'm linux retarded...also the key feature of the VPN is that it needs to work while I am in China...which seems to be a bit of a gamble.

AirVPN offer VPN through various methods that can bypass restrictions including through SSL or SSH tunnels, through various ports and various countries.

You generate the config you want, open networkmanager, and click VPN > import from file, and add your ovpn file. Thats pretty much it.

PPTP will not connect here on my end. I followed the instructions and after no luck there I played around with some of the encryption settings and still nothing.

@Eden
I will need my existing (shitty) VPN (that I paid for....) to have a stable enough connection for me to download air-VPN to give it a try. I'll update you once I have done that.

Oh keep in mind, they have an application you can use. But using the native openvpn configs that you can generate on their site, you'll have a much better time. These will generate the key and cert files and ovpn config.