I’m currently trying out Bazzite, and everything is smooth, except one thing: I can’t get V2Ray-based apps (V2RayN, Nekoray etc.) to tunnel the VPN traffic. As I couldn’t find much online, asking here - did anyone successfully run V2Ray on immutable distros generally and Bazzite specifically? What should be done to make it work?

(An obvious solution - installation via rpm-ostree - does not help, and I need V2Ray specifically)

  • OUwUO@programming.dev
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    9 hours ago

    Bazzite shows that terra-release is indeed installed

    Assuming it is disabled (as happened in https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/issues/2580)

    Interesting conflict; as these seem to be at odds with each other. I wonder what’s up. If it’s indeed disabled, then I would like to apologize for causing any confusion. FWIW, I may have been mislead by Terra’s own documentation. I suppose it might be outdated.

    Anyhow, perhaps we can undertake the steps to uninstall terra-release (even if it’s not there) and (re)install it.

    Uninstalling terra-release

    If terra-release is layered[1], then we’d have to start with rpm-ostree uninstall terra-release. Afterwards, to delete the Terra repository, even if it’s not even there[2]: sudo rm -rf /etc/yum.repos.d/terra.repo

    (Re)installing terra-release

    To (re)install terra-release (as per its own instructions):

    First evoke the following command:

    curl -fsSL https://github.com/terrapkg/subatomic-repos/raw/main/terra.repo | pkexec tee /etc/yum.repos.d/terra.repo

    And then, evoke this one: sudo rpm-ostree install terra-release . I’m unsure if sudo is required. Personally, first I’ll do is without sudo. Only after it fails due to permissions will I do it with sudo.

    A reboot is probably required for it to take effect. Hence, try evoking rpm-ostree install throne only after performing a reboot.

    1. You can check this with rpm-ostree status. If it is, you will find it after LayeredPackages:. If it’s not, you should not evoke rpm-ostree uninstall terra-release, as it wouldn’t get through anyways. ↩︎

    2. If ls /etc/yum.repos.d/ | grep "terra" doesn’t yield anything, then you may skip this. But evoking the command to delete something that’s not there, isn’t bad or anything. ↩︎