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This might be the most difficult task I've ever accomplished on a computer. Good though. I started studying IT and this experience in Linux will definitely help.

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UBUniversal Blue

•Created by Josh on 6/17/2024 in #🛟bazzite-help

How to install Astrill VPN in Bazzite

I think this should work for anyone else who wants to try. Sorry, not familiar with formatting in Discord.

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UBUniversal Blue

•Created by Josh on 6/17/2024 in #🛟bazzite-help

How to install Astrill VPN in Bazzite

right click on resolv.conf and select "Show target" this will take you to where the real files are. In your new location right click on the file browser winder and choose "open as administrator". now choose both resolv.cnf and resolve.conf stub and make backups of them both. You can copy and paste them to your desktop. Then delete them. Go back to the resolv.conf symlink and delete that too. 9. Now, open the network manager folder found at /etc/NetworkManager and open the networkManager.cnf Go to line 22 where you should see [main] in brackets just like that. Make a new line and put (on line 23) dns=default then save. You may need to use administrator privileges. then go back to /etc/NetworkManager and open the conf.d folder /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d and make a new text file. Type in [main] dns=default then save the file and rename it to dns.cnf 10. Finally, reboot your system again. Now networking might be slightly glitchy. I had to disconnect and reconnect to my wifi for it to work, but at this point you should be able to log in to Astrill and use it in stealth VPN mode. If it doesn't work disconnect from wifi and reconnect again. I haven't tested other modes. This should persist through reboots, but I don't know if updates will break it or not. If you have any questions I suppose feel free to ask, I had hell getting this working, I'm a Linux noob, but I feel good since I'm pretty sure I'm the first person to get Astrill running on blazzite. Otherwise I could have gotten some help!

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UBUniversal Blue

•Created by Josh on 6/17/2024 in #🛟bazzite-help

How to install Astrill VPN in Bazzite

and make sure that it says this SELINUX=permissive if it says anything else just change it to SELINUX=permissive, it should be on line 22 of the file. B. second issue, directory checkout fails, says that /usr/local is missing or doesn't exist. you can ignore this. 5. After all this you should be able to open your base directory bazzite-deck_fedora and open the var folder, then open the usrlocal folder /var/usrlocal in there should be an Astrill folder. Don't mess with it for now. if it is there reboot your device and then open your desktop mode again. 6. Now if you go back to that astrill folder in /var/usrlocal/astrill you should see an astrill.desktop file. You can link this to your desktop by dragging and dropping it and selecting link here. I also dragged and dropped it to my Taskbar. Up to you. Now we have to make sure it will actually work. You can open it and log in now but it won't function. it will connect and log in but if you open Google it will give you an HTTP HSTS error because your DNS isn't right. Turns out fedora does something with DNs that astrill doesn't like. 7. Go back to your bazzite-deck_fedora folder (it's your root directory) and open the etc folder. Here you will find a file named resolv.conf it should have a little two arrow symbol on it. that means it is a symlink. it's not a real file but a link that points at a real file. open your terminal (called ptyxis in bazzite) and use this command systemctl disable systemd-resolved and systemctl stop systemd-resolved 8. After doing that go back to where we found that resolv.conf

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UBUniversal Blue

•Created by Josh on 6/17/2024 in #🛟bazzite-help

How to install Astrill VPN in Bazzite

SOLVED- Instructions So if you are reading this you need to run Astrill VPN on your device, almost 100% certainly because you are in China. Cool. Same problem I faced. Let me lay out how I fixed it. 1. Go to astrill.com and sign in with your account information. You need to download the Astrill rpm for 64 bit systems. That should be named Astrill-setup-linux64.rpm Just download it to your downloads folder. 2. using dolphin, the file browser that is pre-installed in bazzit, just navigate to your downloads folder. 3. Right click in the downloads folder and choose to open the terminal there. 4. Use the following command rpm-ostree install astrill-setup-linux64.rpm (you can also right click on the rpm file in your file browser and paste it into the terminal after rpm-ostree install, some guides online suggest that rpm-ostree install functions better if you use the full file path) Now here you might hit a few bugs. A. 1st bug I hit? a missing Metadata key which mentioned selinux. (sorry I don't have the exact output available for you at the time of writing) Selinux is a kind of security feature that a lot of Linux distros enable by default. Bazzite should have it enabled by default, but if you get this Metadata key error then it is because SELINUX isn't enabled on your system. Navigate to your root directory, then open the etc folder then open the selinux folder. There is a file there named config. That file tells your system what selinux is supposed to be doing. Scroll to the bottom

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UBUniversal Blue

•Created by Josh on 6/17/2024 in #🛟bazzite-help

How to install Astrill VPN in Bazzite

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