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Question for you razor2021 is the GUI working fine for you, since I installed the GUI expressvpn is unusable as my internet keep getting block. It worked so nicely from CLI before.


Hi yes, it has been working well. I tried it out so far and no issues. I uninstalled it to check that I was able ...

@fehlix They said they were not intending to offer to public, but they had no more information as to why that changed. So, annoying. I guess you might remove the ExpressVPN installer from public. Does that affect both installers? The deb and GUI installer?

@fehlix If you can leave the ExpressVPN installer in MXPI that would be great. I wil check to see if they are able to offer the deb package in public like they used to.

Thanks @fehlix ! The old installation is prged. Everything is working fine again. I used the GUI install app instead. Appreciate all the help.

fehlix - the deb file is from expressvpn's website -> https://www.expressvpn.works/clients/linux/expressvpn_3.83.0.2-1_amd64.deb

My QSI as ollows:

System:
Kernel: 6.12.17-1-liquorix-amd64 [6.12-22~mx23ahs] arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0 parameters: audit=0
intel_pstate=disable ...

Even uninstalling fails. As indicated by your previous investigation above. And its not possible to re-install the legacy CLI version until the older legacy CLI expressvpn is removed. However, I can install the new GUI version of the expressvpn as a temporary workaround.


$ sudo dpkg -r ...

@fehlix - I think I'm hitting into this issue you had investigated for another OP before. viewtopic.php?p=800708#p800708

I'm hitting into it now due to trying out their GUI installer. And after uninstalling their GUI installer, it screwed up the legacy CLI deb installation.

I always update ExpressVPN thru MXPI and usually no issues. But I notice this error recently. I'm not sure if its due to ExpressVPN having added a new Linux GUI for their app install while still having a legacy CLI app install using .deb installer.


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Does the above constructs prevent the OP from installing on MX? When you say its supposed to fail, I'm booting MX Linux with SysV, right? But it works without failing for me. But for some reason not working for OP at the activation point.

Another option if you botched the install/setup somehow, is just to download the deb version of expressvpn from their website --> https://www.expressvpn.com/setup#linux
Right-click to install the deb version, and open terminal and do the same thing as above. From cmd line, just run the following ...