Starting June 15th, 2021, PureVPN will discontinue offering support for PPTP, L2TP, and SSTP protocols on the majority of VPN locations.
However, at the popular request of our users, we will continue to support the following locations for users to connect using PPTP, L2TP, and SSTP protocols:
Germany: de1.pointtoserver.com
Netherlands: nl1.pointtoserver.com
United Kingdom: ukl1.pointtoserver.com
United States: usil1.pointtoserver.com
United States: ustx1.pointtoserver.com
United States: usca1.pointtoserver.com
United States: usfl1.pointtoserver.com
United States: usny1.pointtoserver.com
United States: uswdc1.pointtoserver.com
Australia: au-sd1.pointtoserver.com
You can enjoy better internet freedom on your Manjaro 18.1.5 OS with PureVPN. Here’s the tutorial that you can follow to setup the PureVPN on Manjaro 18.1.5
Things to Consider:
Before you begin, please make sure that:
You have a working internet connection
Linux Manjaro 18.1.5 Supported Device.
A Premium PureVPN account (If you haven’t bought yet click here to buy)
Note: Dedicated IP addon can be only be connected with Ras protocol i.e PPTP/L2TP/SSTP/IKEV.
Find your VPN credentials for manual configuration
To find your VPN credentials log into the PureVPN members area. Click 👉 here to visit member area.
Login to the member area using your PureVPN registered email address and password.
From manage account section, go to the subscriptions tab.
On Subscription tab scroll down to be able to view your VPN credentials.
You will be able to see and copy your VPN credentials. Note down your PureVPN username and click the eye icon to make your password visible and use it in the manual configuration.
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How to connect PureVPN PPTP manually on Linux Manjaro 18.1.5
Click the Networks Icon and select Configure Network selection option.
Click the + icon to add a VPN connection and select Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) as your connection type.
Enter the following info:
Enter Connection name: PureVPN
Insert the desired server: Please refer to the server address shared in the above note.
Enter your PureVPN credentials. Here is how you can find your VPN credentials.
Click Advanced option.
Check the following options under it:
MSCHAP
MSCHAPV2
Allow BSD compression
Allow Deflate compression
Allow TCP Header compression
Click OK
Click Save and close Networks window.
Click Networks Icon and select the newly created VPN connection, click Connect button to connect to PureVPN.
You are connected to PureVPN now!
How to connect PureVPN SSTP manually on Linux Manjaro 18.1.5
Open FireFox and download the SSTP network manager packages from the link below by clicking on the Download from mirror option.
Click the Applications Launcher Icon and open Terminal from there.
Now, run the following commands one by one to extract and install the SSTP client and network manager packages.
cd Downloads/
sudo tar -xvf network-manager-sstp-1.2.6-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
sudo pacman -S network-manager-sstp
sudo pacman -S sstp-client
Click Networks Icon and select Configure Network selection option.
Click the + icon to add a VPN connection and select Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol (SSTP) as your connection type.
Enter the following info:
Enter Connection name: PureVPN
Insert the desired server: Please refer to the server address shared in the above note.
Enter your PureVPN credentials. Here is how you can find your VPN credentials.
Check the Ignore Certificate Warnings option.
Click Advanced option.
Check the following options under it:
MSCHAP
MSCHAPV2
Allow BSD compression
Allow Deflate compression
Allow TCP Header compression
Click OK
Click Save and close the Networks window.
Now, click Networks Icon and select the newly created VPN connection, click Connect to connect to PureVPN.
You are connected to PureVPN now!
How to connect PureVPN OpenVPN manually on Linux Manjaro 18.1.5
Open FireFox and download our OpenVPN configuration files
Right-click the New+OVPN+Files.zip file and Extract the files into a folder of your choosing.
Click the Networks Icon and select Configure Network selection option.
Click the + icon to add a VPN connection and select Import VPN Connection… option.
Go to the folder where you have downloaded the OpenVPN files and select your desired file to connect.
When asked to Copy the certificates click Yes.
Insert the following info:
Insert Connection name: PureVPN
Insert Gateway: (already selected/entered)
Connection Type: Password from drop down menu
Enter your PureVPN credentials. Here is how you can find your VPN credentials.
Click Folder icon for CA Certificate and upload the ca.crt.crt file.
Click Advanced.
From the General tab select the following options:
Check Use custom gateway port: For UDP insert 53 and For TCP insert 80
Note: For TCP connection select Use a TCP Connection.....
From Security tab select following options:
From Cipher: Select AES-256-CBC
From HMAC Authentication: Select SHA-1
From TLS Settings:
Mode = TLS-Auth
Key File = Click folder icon next to Key File. Go to OpenVPN downloaded folder, select key and click Open
Key Direction = Client (1)
Click OK.
Click Apply and close Networks window.
Now, click Networks Icon and select the newly created VPN connection, click Connect to connect to PureVPN.
You are connected to PureVPN now!
