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2026-07-28 - install astrill vpn on arch linux

short and sweet. i paid for astrill vpn while traveling. it was easy to setup on my phone, but not my arch linux computer.

https://www.astrill.com

from the website, you can download a 64-bit ".sh" file. then run that to install it.

next, make sure your arch linux is up to date:

astrill doesn't have a cli interface, only a gui. and it depends on the old version of gtk. so you have to install gtk2 from the aur in order to get it working.

important note, i tried installing gtk2-compat from the main arch repositories, and it did NOT work with astrill. you have to actually install the full gtk2 release. i don't remember the specific bug, but there is some library that astrill depends on that isn't included in the gtk2-compat package.

after that, run astrill from this binary:

And it should work!