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I installed ProtonVPN from the proton site. I can't for the life of me figure out how to remove the remaining pieces of the software. I've done the usual things:

  1. Checked the ubuntu Store (not there)
  2. Purged protonvpn (can't find)
  3. apt remove protonvpn (can't find)
  4. unhid files and searched in Files and deleted all the protonvpn remnants I could find.

Yet, I can still launch ProtonVPN from the desktop icon/application launcher

Any thoughts?

user535733
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    How you remove software depends upon how you installed it. Your description "*from the proton site*" is too vague to offer advice. Please edit your question to clearly explain how you installed the software. More details are better. – user535733 Sep 04 '21 at 20:27

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You downloaded a deb file. So it can't be in the store.

Proton describes it very clearly:

sudo apt-get install protonvpn

Later in the "notes" they write:

To uninstall the official app:

sudo apt-get autoremove protonvpn
#Remove any leftover files: 
rm -rf ~/.cache/protonvpn 
rm -rf ~/.config/protonvpn

Seems to be pretty straight forward. (RTFM)

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    they should write better software that follows standard uninstall – prismspecs Oct 24 '21 at 11:10
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    this leaves a problem with insecure 'https://repo.protonvpn.com/debian stable Release' > no longer has a Release file https://askubuntu.com/a/310/421929 – Alexander Glulkhovtsev Nov 01 '22 at 04:22
  • By the time I found this post, I had alredy followed the uninstall instructions from the protonvpn website but ended up getting an error whenever I ran "sudo apt-get update" stating signatures could not be verified for the protonvpn repo. I tried checking the Ubuntu Software & Update center to remove the repo but it wasn't there... Yet I still got the error. I found the repo at "/etc/apt/sources.list.d/protonvpn-stable.list". I removed that file and the error is gone. – IceMonkee Mar 11 '23 at 14:00
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This last answer from iceMonkee helped me. I did have to CHOWN permissions in that folder but is gone now. And I echo the sentiments of prismspecs

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