Arch Linux User Repository

"Please, do not flag this package as out-of-date until there's the official release on Github page."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

@rf2020 My speeds are the same, and my ping is really good as well. I have the wireguard-tools package installed, and am using Nordlynx. I'm on nordvpn-bin 3.12.2-1

A question for those who are using the latest update with nordlynx (wireguard): how are your upload/download speeds? I ask because of my experience with nordvpn on windows.

On linux with nordvpn-bin 3.12.1, my speeds with nordlynx are barely reduced, but when I was forced to adopt the new app to login on windows, my downloads went from 250 Mbps without to 50 Mbps with (and yes, that was with nordlynx)! There were similar reductions for upload speed. Thus I'm risk-averse now on linux.

Thanks for your info!

I found a fix, if anybody is struggling to login with new update.

I just had to use the legacy flag for login: "nordvpn login --legacy"

It doesn't support MFA, so disabe that, then login via CLI, and enable MFA again after.

Yes i had this issue too, but only with chrome. I did opened the url with firefox and after i login it opened a blank terminal for a few seconds and it worked.

@Archanfel80HUN I already have group and service running. The problem I am running into is, that when I get the "Choose an application to open the nordvpn link"-prompt and select NordVPN (or alacritty, or nordvpnd, or xterm, or terminator) in the browser, nothing happens. So I can get the link and login in the browser, but can't open the nordvpn link in the cli to finalize login.

Is there a manual way to open the link in the cli?

@joshfiveo Wait! There is two more thing. 1) You have to enable and run the nordvpnd systemd service and make sure that your user is added to the nordvpn group. Otherwise cant save the configuration!

@Archanfel80HUN No success, but thanks for the help. :)

@joshfiveo My default konsole app is 'terminator'

@Archanfel80HUN Would you mind telling me which terminal emulator you are using? I uninstalled uBlock and disabled my pi-hole, but still no success. Maybe NordVPN doesn't play well with alacritty