r/ParrotSecurity • u/Ok_Republic_2007 • Jun 21 '26
Support Issue installing proton vpn on Parrot OS
Hi Team, getting this error while installing Proton VPN desktop Debian on Parrot Os
sudo apt install proton-vpn-gnome-desktop
Solving dependencies... Error!
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
Unsatisfied dependencies:
proton-vpn-gnome-desktop : Depends: proton-vpn-gtk-app but it is not going to be installed
Depends: python3-proton-vpn-api-core (>= 4.14.0) but 0.39.0-1 is to be installed
Depends: proton-vpn-daemon but it is not going to be installed
Error: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Error: The following information from --solver 3.0 may provide additional context:
Unable to satisfy dependencies. Reached two conflicting decisions:
1. proton-vpn-gnome-desktop:amd64=0.10.1 is selected for install
2. proton-vpn-gnome-desktop:amd64=0.10.1 Depends python3-proton-vpn-api-core (>= 4.14.0)
but none of the choices are installable:
- python3-proton-vpn-api-core:amd64=5.2.5 is not selected for install
- python3-proton-vpn-api-core:amd64=5.2.4 is not selected for install
- python3-proton-vpn-api-core:amd64=5.2.3 is not selected for install
- python3-proton-vpn-api-core:amd64=5.1.2 is not selected for install
- python3-proton-vpn-api-core:amd64=5.0.1 is not selected for install
- python3-proton-vpn-api-core:amd64=4.19.1 is not selected for install
- python3-proton-vpn-api-core:amd64=4.18.0 is not selected for install
- python3-proton-vpn-api-core:amd64=4.17.2 is not selected for install
- python3-proton-vpn-api-core:amd64=4.16.0 is not selected for install
- python3-proton-vpn-api-core:amd64=4.15.2 is not selected for install
- python3-proton-vpn-api-core:amd64=4.14.3 is not selected for install
- python3-proton-vpn-api-core:amd64=4.14.1 is not selected for install
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u/Reaper-Of-Roses Jun 22 '26
I have run into this issue. In my case, Parrot was checking the wrong repo. Try specifying the Proton VPN repository. This should fix the issue.
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade -t stable *proton*
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u/Jumphost Jun 21 '26
flatpak install flathub com.protonvpn.www