I posted it on the page of the beta version, but I believe it applies to the stable release as well:
The CLI tool had some issues on my system which are easily fixable.
When I launched the CLI tool with eddie-ui -cli, it told me "Unable to find a method to run elevated process" and I couldn't find a way to fix this per se.
When I launched it with sudo, it couldn't find my profile and shut down instantly. I believe, if you launch the CLI tool with sudo, it will try to find your profiles in the wrong directory (/usr/lib/eddie-ui/ instead of ~/.config/eddie/).
There are two solutions:
(1) You can launch the CLI tool with the AirVPN username and password as arguments, but it will be visible in the terminal history so it is not a good idea.
(2) Create a symlink so that the CLI tool can find the correct profile, then pass the name of the profile as an argument when launching the CLI tool:
sudo ln -s ~/.config/eddie/default.profile /usr/lib/eddie-ui/my_profile.profile
sudo eddie-ui -cli profile=my_profile
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