Thanks Ralph, made sense.
There was something wrong I think when I first installed it, apart from
showing that the package was installed
protonvpn-stable-release_1.0.8_all.deb (one of three files I have to
install), there were none of the related files installed so that when I
tried to rerun the install process, it saw
that protonvpn-stable-release_1.0.8_all.deb was installed then said OK
already installed. That was why I wanted to purge it from the system but
that failed so I had to manually removed them (I used the properties of
the package to show where there were various packages (or at least
should of been).
Once everything was removed, I started the install again and this time
the second file installed and pulled a 80 Python dependencies (which it
had not done previously). The third file is optional to give you the
Systray icon. But now it installed and working.
Tim H
On 13/12/2025 13:40, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Tim,
So if I wanted to run something like sudo apt purge protonvpn, how do
I exclude it from /media/ folder and sub folders??
‘apt purge’ runs ‘apt-get purge’. This is deleting the files installed
from the given package(s). Plus the ‘purge’ rather than ‘remove’ means
any configuration files, which you may have edited, are also removed.
‘remove’ leaves them be in case you re-install the package and still
want your old, tailored configuration.
Neither delete anything which wasn't installed from the package. They
don't go searching the disk for things to install. There should be no
concern over your /media.
You could use the --dry-run option, detailed in apt-get(1), to have it
show what would be done without doing it.
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