
Once you have uninstalled protonvpn with the command above, you need now to install it by using this command sudo apt install protonvpn

Proceed by confirming with "Y" and press enter to continue the uninstall processĪs you can see on the screenshot above, now protonvpn has been removed from your system The command below will remove protonvpn gui, simply copy paste it to terminal and press enter sudo apt remove protonvpn Now simply follow the steps below to fix this issue :) Logs of protonvpn are located on - /home/user/.cache/protonvpn/logs/Īnd the log file that you see below is called protonvpn-gui.log, if something goes bad during the startup of protonvpn gui then you can dig on that file to find the error.

I couldn't take a screenshot at that time, but I went and checked logs and found the error that ProtonVPN Gui was showing It seemed like a package or something got broken when I updated the system and due to the update the protonvpn gui wasn't working anymore. If you are getting this error when trying to open the protonvpn app on Linux mint, this means you cannot connect to servers, after some researching for awhile I didn't find the cause of error but i managed to find the solution. In this tutorial you will learn how to fix the error : " ‘UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x82 in position 4: invalid start byte "
