I just recently installed Mageia as my Linux OS, and was wanting to add a VPN service. All of the FREE to use VPN services found online do not seem to support Mageia, so I started doing some research through the Wiki. I found an instance where a user can rebuild a distro for Mageia, with references to Fedora and Debian as the source .rpm packages; I wasn't able to locate the alien program mentioned from the Mageia repo for Debian packages. The VPN service I was looking at is the ProtonVPN, and they have downloadable Fedora, Debian and ArchLinux packages. Is the process of rebuilding a distro fairly easy, or is there another way around this?
Foreign .rpm packages
An rpm from another distro can often be rebuilt for Mageia. Please refer to Packagers RPM tutorial. A good source for the best suitable package candidates is Fedora.
Also see our forum thread How to rebuild an src.rpm, using amoebax as example
.deb packages
Programs packaged for Debian/Ubuntu/... in .deb format can often be converted using the program alien, which you can install from Mageia repo.
Example: How to repackage and install Spotify