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"Please, do not flag this package as out-of-date until there's the official release on Github page."

"Maybe the announcement is delayed, but wait for some other possible forward release, which is patching the previous one before the actual publishing."

Note from 3.20.2-4

Dependency included as mandatory earlier as community request.

If you're late for the party and only had updated up to 3.20.2-2.1:

• Simply uninstall nordvpn-bin and install again.

If you're coming from Manjaro or e.g another Arch-based distro with no stable libxml2-legacy package just yet:

• No need to upgrade. It's best keeping with the 3.20.2-3 version. But if you already had, then you can downgrade.

Note from 3.20.2-3

There is now a new package from official repositories named libxml2-legacy and with it two fresh considerations:

• Despite the fact libxml2-legacy was included as optional, it is actually a mandatory dependency. This will change on next NordVPN's release if the legacy support remains.

• This release only removes the previous symbolic link and purges the file within NordVPN library directory, otherwise it would result in an error before installation/upgrade.

Note from 3.20.2-2.1

A patch have been implemented due the absence of libxml2.so.2 after package upgrade to 2.14.2. This fix is not useful if:

• You plan to keep your system update to a specific date until NordVPN officially uses the new library.

• You are from a different distribution, which is a Arch-based one with other repositories, and libxml2 is not yet upgraded.

Note from 3.19.1:

The repository's hierarchy has been updated and a slightly divergence comes with it. It was from:

/debian/pool/main

To now as:

/debian/pool/main/n/nordvpn

Any previous commits you may like to try in the future will need a manual mediation to replace old links in favor of the new ones.

Note from 3.19.0:

This version introduces new libraries being used by NordVPN. I have created symbolic links and committed a patch for it not interposing with already existing libraries (like sqlite3). Although this is not a big deal, If you, however, upgraded nordvpn-bin before the fix and noticed some library-related issue from sqlite lately, I suggest reinstalling the affected package.

Note from 3.17.4v:

The previous bug exposing DNS servers is fixed.

Note from 3.17.3v:

Caution! This version needs heed while using it and should be avoided. I strongly advice downgrading to 3.17.2 and wait for a new version or patching. Some big problems are:

• There's DNS leak present. Your original ISP servers can be exposed, as reported already on #343 issue.

• Unable to connect on nordvpn servers. Your journal might show the follow output: networker setting dns: setting dns with resolvectl: setting dns with resolvectl: Failed to set DNS configuration: Could not activate remote peer: activation request failed: unknown unit.: exit status 1

  After restarting resolve with systemctl restart systemd-resolved.service you may get it working again, enough for connecting normally, as reported, but not exclusively an ARM platform issue, on #342.

Also huge thanks for the community warnings in prior comments before I could've noticed all.

Note from 3.16.2v:

As the published note from the version above has mentioned on Github's page:

• Logging in with a username and password is no longer available in the terminal.

Please, consider using a token to logging in from now on.

Note from 3.16.0v:

The 'countries.dat' may differ between versions. Be aware to remove the file before upgrading the package.

If you're seeing the message "Daemon is unreachable, is systemd running?", then one of two things is probably happening.

The nordvpn daemon might not be started
Start it using:
sudo systemctl enable --now nordvpnd

You might not have been added to the nordvpn group
Add yourself:
sudo gpasswd -a USERNAME nordvpn
And then restart in order for the group to be created:
reboot

Just wanted to share my experience with this package. I've been using nordvpn-bin for the last 2 years, because I had signed up for the 2-year special discount with nordvpn. Throughout that time, this package was very unstable and was the source of many headaches such as:

• Sometimes it would not connect, and the killswitch could not be turned off. So the only solution was to uninstall, and then restart.

• Sometimes it would not connect on certain public networks such as library wifi.

• Sometimes it would only connect to servers from costa rica, and I had to manually select the country using the cli commands.

• Sometimes the autoconnect feature would not automatically connect, and I had to always remember to check if my vpn is connected, when I start the system.

• Sometimes these issues would last several days, and I was forced to install an older version which didn't have those issues.

I think these are not issues related to the nordvpn servers, because I never had these issues with the android app, or the macOS app, or the ubuntu cli.

I recently tried Mullvad for 1 month and I didn't have any of the issues I had with nordvpn. I'm not trying to promote them, and I'm not affiliated with them, but I really think it's the best vpn service for arch linux.

hi. is possible add

Categories=Network;

to the .desktop file? this makes for example put the app into the Network menu

greetings

Thank you that was it. I was totally overthinking it.

@malibu Try running: sudo nordvpn set firewall on && sudo nordvpn set killswitch on

Hi, I installed nordvpn-bin once and was able to enable killswitch. I had some problems that turned out to be my fault, but in the course of finding this out I uninstalled nordvpn-bin and ufw, and I flushed iptables. Now I have reinstalled nordvpn-bin and ufw and enabled them but when I try to enable killswitch I get a message "Firewall must be enabled to use 'killswitch'".

Does anyone know what the binary is looking for so that I can get this to work again? Thanks.

@jade To list the servers you could download the NordVPN server list: 'wget https://downloads.nordcdn.com/configs/archives/servers/ovpn.zip && unzip ovpn.zip'. You will get two directories 'ovpn_udp' and 'ovpn_tcp'.

To connect to a specific server you can use the short format of the city and the server number, e.g. 'nordvpn connect uk2329'.

If you want to find a server with your prefered protocol/technology you can use the 'Server recommended' tool by NordVPN(https://nordvpn.com/servers/tools/).

Any idea why this error happens on connect: [Error] turning on nordlynx: Out of file descriptors

Hi, Is it possible for me to get a list of servers in a country and connect to a specific server? For example, there is only 1 city available in the UK but there are several servers (400+). I want to be able to connect to server #nnn. But how do I get a list of those server numbers? I know I can do that in Windows using the app but the app is not available in linux.

TIA

I recently ran into issues after updating, "Whoops! Cannot reach User Daemon." Checking with "systemctl status nordvpnd" showed that it crashed without giving any real reason. This happened to me because because I am running NetworkManager and was not using systemd-resolved. Fix is linked here:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NordVPN#Setting_systemd-resolved_as_DNS_resolver https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NetworkManager#systemd-resolved

Hope it helps.