Question about Amnezia VPN and amneziawg

General system Applications
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Amnezia VPN doesn’t give any options how to install it on arch linux:

However, it seems like Amnezia VPN is compatible with amneziawg

right?

It says

AmneziaWG is a contemporary version of the popular VPN protocol

From my understanding there is backwards compatibility with Amnezia VPN? So one could just install amneziawg instead?

But I don’t understand how to install it. There seems to be only a Go Implementation of AmneziaWG. The instruction says:

This requires an installation of the latest version of Go.

So first one needs to install Go ?

sudo pacman -S go

and then install amneziawg-go as

$ git clone https://github.com/amnezia-vpn/amneziawg-go
$ cd amneziawg-go
$ make

Is all of the above correct?

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 yay amneziawg                                                                                                 1m 5s 11:06:55
7 aur/amneziawg-linux-hardened 1.0.20241112-1 (+5 0.16)
    AmneziaWG is a contemporary version of the popular VPN protocol, WireGuard.
6 aur/amneziawg-tools-git r506.c0b400c-1 (+1 0.12)
    AmneziaWG is a contemporary version of the popular VPN protocol, WireGuard
5 aur/amneziawg-dkms-git r1316.7e7dfca-3 (+3 0.13)
    AmneziaWG is a contemporary version of the popular VPN protocol, WireGuard
4 aur/amneziawg-linux 1.0.20241112-1 (+5 0.15)
    AmneziaWG is a contemporary version of the popular VPN protocol, WireGuard.
3 aur/amneziawg-tools 1.0.20241018-2 (+8 0.15)
    AmneziaWG is a contemporary version of the popular VPN protocol, WireGuard.
2 aur/amneziawg-dkms 1.0.20241112-3 (+8 0.83)
    AmneziaWG is a contemporary version of the popular VPN protocol, WireGuard.
1 aur/amneziawg-go 0.2.12-2 (+9 0.43)
    AmneziaWG is a contemporary version of the popular VPN protocol, WireGuard.

I know nothing of Amnezia, but there are a lot of AUR packages. I would guess wireguard-tools + amneziawg-go + amneziawg-dkms, reboot and then try the go package.

These can be installed as:

yay -S <package-name>

Or build by hand, your choice :smiley:

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Missed one out.

4

I managed to install the Amnezia VPN (the regular version, not WG version) using bin. file.

It connects and kind of works. However, the connection speed is abysmal and the VPN is literally unusable at all: pages that did not open before still won’t open, and the pages that worked before are not working anymore with this VPN.

5

Free or paid version?

Vivaldi has a built in free VPN and so does Opera, though Opera have not got a shining reputation…

6

Paid version. My brother uses it on Windows with the same internet vendor, but he is on broadband, and I’m on adsl connection. It perfectly works for him.

The problem is, I need VPN on PC, not just in browser. They are blocking access so that I can not even upgrade the system.

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