Hey guys, today i want to do a quick tutorial. Many people have problems with the AirVPN installation on Ubuntu 16. I explain how to install it correctly and how register it as an auto-start programm.
1. Download the AirVPN .deb file (https://airvpn.org/linux/)
2. Install the newer mono dependency package replacements.
(For newbies: Open the terminal by pressing Ctrl + Alt + t)
sudo apt install gksu mono-runtime mono-utils mono-reference-assemblies-2.0 openvpn stunnel4 mono-devel
3. Now you have to install the Air .deb package you downloaded but you cant just click on the file like you would normally do it. You’ll need to tell it to ignore a couple of the older dependency packages that aren’t present in 16.04.
To do this, open the terminal and navigate to the directory the downloaded .deb-file is at.
(For newbies: You can navigate in the terminal by using the command "cd". So type in "cd Downloads" and press Enter to get to your "Downloads" folder if you downloaded the airvpn-deb-file to this folder)
Then use this command so that Ubuntu can ignore older dependencies:
sudo dpkg -i --ignore-depends=libmono-system-runtime2.0-cil --ignore-depends=libmono-winforms2.0-cil --ignore-depends=libmono-corlib2.0-cil airvpn_linux_x64_debian.deb
5) Now navigate to the main directory by typing "cd .." and pressing Enter and typing "cd .." and pressing Enter again
6) type "sudo nano -w /var/lib/dpkg/status" and press Enter
7) press "y" and Enter
8) use Ctrl + w to search for the package "airvpn"
9) If you found the package "airvpn", go to „Depends“ and delete everything except for „gksu, mono-runtime, mono-utils, openvpn" and "stunnel4“
It should like that:
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10) Press Ctrl + c to exit and save.
I hope this tutorial was helpful :)