(longish TL;DR) Be careful running network related commands on linux. Especially if you’re like me and don’t know what you’re doing. If you open a connection using the systemctl command, you can nuke it by deleting any instance of that connection name in your file system through /etc/systemd/system/ and /usr/lib/systemd/system/. Make sure to invoke stop and disable of the connection before deleting files. Oh also be careful with the rm command always.
I’m a big time linux noob and I’m having a lot of problems with the OS. This is an extremely frustrating experience that I’m trying to get through slowly until I can handle these things on my own.
I tried to install a vpn service called hide.me vpn. It’s a vpn that I used on windows and I saw that it had a linux download. I gave it a go and used the curl command that it gave me as instructed. I invoked curl in its own folder on my desktop. In order to install it I had to run a command called systemctl in order to establish a connection with one of their servers I’m assuming and finish the installation process. First I typed out systemctl enable hide.me@na I picked na to see if this would work. I then executed systemctl start hide.me@na as instructed to do next.
Nothing happened and I figured I need to understand something better in order to install this properly, so I gave up there and decided to postpone this problem for another day.
Ever since then, I am unable to connect to the internet. I can connect to my router, but not the internet. I verified that this wasn’t likely an issue with my router because well you can read this post right now.
Here’s what I tried already: I rebooted my OS. I forgot my router connection in the settings and reconnected.
I think I put together that I have a port connection open with hide.me@na still and that systemctl appears to be the equivalent of netstat on windows.
Any advice would help tremendously, also I think I’m vulnerable by establishing this connection so I’m gonna turn the wifi off for now.