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"Please, do not flag this package as out-of-date until there's the official release on Github page."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

Thanks Mxzcabel for the work done on nordvpn-bin installs and fixes. I just received the nordvpnd error for libxml2.so.2 after a reboot (6.6.90-1-MANJARO), nordvpn version 3.20.2-3. I selected the optional libxml2-legacy in pamac gui, applied changes, and nordvpnd re-connected successfully!

@marcel.svitalsky, the package you mentioned is in extra/libxml2-legacy under arch. It should be in the unstable branch of manjaro. Should come to stable at some point

Upon trying to update this package on my Manjaro Linux I encountered an error "could not find all required packages: libxml2-legacy". I believe this legacy package no longer exists, though I am new to the AUR &c. stuff (switched from Ubuntu quite recently) and so I might easily be mistaken. I was only able to solve this problem by manually removing the dependency and build the package.

@harpium thanks, you're quite right. I'm not sure why I have a 'nordvpn' service at all, but since it doesnt seem valid Ill delete it

But it turns out nordvpnd service has been running fine, so something else has broken my nordvpn binary, most likely the libxml2 issue

@PC2022 I think you mean to enable nordvpnd not nordvpn.

Ignoring the issues with libxml2-legacy, which I was able to resolve by manually removing the symlink and then re-installing package

But after upgrading this package, Im now using NordVPN Vesion 3.20.2 which seems unable to connect at all...

$ nordvpn connect

Connecting to United Kingdom #1933 (uk1933.nordvpn.com) The VPN connection has failed. Please check your internet connection and try connecting to the VPN again. If the issue persists, contact our customer support.

Previous package update was working without issues. The service seems to be masked, and refuses to be unmasked?

$ systemctl start nordvpn

Failed to start nordvpn.service: Unit nordvpn.service is masked.

$ systemctl unmask nordvpn.service

$ systemctl enable nordvpn

Failed to enable unit: Unit /usr/lib/systemd/system/nordvpn.service is masked

Thanks @archvh, understood. I didn't realize that Manjaro repos were behind, that makes sense. Thanks!

@acud

1° libxml2-legacy was added very recently to extra.

2° I don't use Manjaro, but I think they don't use arch repos directly, but have their own which lag behind the arch repos by a few days / weeks.

If that is so, then you don't find libxml2-legacy because it has not yet made it to Manjaro's repos.

For some reason Manjaro can't see and install the aforementioned dependency: pacman -S libxml2-legacy error: target not found: libxml2-legacy Trying to install nordvpn-bin from the AUR fails: yay -S nordvpn-bin -> No AUR package found for libxml2-legacy -> could not find all required packages: libxml2-legacy

ok I sudo pacman -U --overwrite '*' libxml2-legacy-2.13.8-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

and was able to update nordvpn-bin