The following is required for setting a PPTP-VPN connection on Raspberry Pi.

• A working installation of Debian (This guide uses the official supported Raspberry Pi operating system based on Debian Buster, version February 2020)
• Own a premium PureVPN account (If you do not already own one, you can buy a subscription from here)
•  Go to the Menu bar and select/ open the Terminal from there.

• Now you need to install PPTP packages. Type the following to install it:
  1. sudo bash
  2. sudo apt-get install pptp-linux

•  Now to create a PureVPN profile, run the following command:
  1. sudo nano /etc/ppp/peers/purevpn
•  Enter the following information:

1. pty "pptp ukl1.pointtoserver.com --nolaunchpppd --debug"
2. name purevpn0sxxxxx #enter your purevpn username in place of purevpn0sxxx
3. password xxxxx #enter your purevpn account password in place of xxxxx
4. remotename PPTP
5. require-mppe-128
6. require-mschap-v2
7. refuse-eap
8. refuse-pap
9. refuse-chap
10. refuse-mschap
11. noauth
12. debug
13. persist
14. maxfail 0
15. defaultroute
16. replacedefaultroute
17. usepeerdns

Save and exit the editor.

•  In order to connect to the VPN, run the command:
  1. sudo pon purevpn
•  You are connected to PureVPN now, to check your current IP and location run the command:
  • sudo curl ipinfo.io

•  In order to disconnect to the VPN, run the command:

  1. sudo pkill pppd