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"Please, do not flag this package as out-of-date until there's the official release on Github page."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

The Arch packagers have released libxml2-legacy, maybe it's a better dependency for this package, until the NordVPN team updates the package.

Reference: https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/libxml2-legacy/

@Ubspy Thank you for your suggestion. I've decided to use the Arch Linux Archive since the binary is already compiled and is from an official source.

I switched to wgnord (https://aur.archlinux.org/wgnord.git), it works.

I'm having the same issue gorhat mentioned. It looks like on April 22nd, the core/libxml2 package was updated, and the library file name was changed from libxml2.so.2 to libxml2.so.16.0.0 (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/releases).

I'm unsure what the best solution would be, as the NordVPN deb file would need to be rebuilt with this new version of libxml2, and that's dependent on NordVPN. Is it possible to maybe include the older libxml2.so.2 file with this AUR package?

For any struggling, I went and cloned the git repo for the libxml2 (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2), checked out to the previous stable version (git checkout v2.13.7), and built that. Then I copied "libxml2.so.2.13.7" to "/usr/lib" and created a symlink with "sudo ln -s libxml2.so.2.13.7 libxml2.so.2".

This fixed it for me, and I am able to use nordvpn as it is now, though it's very much a band-aid fix.

After last update:

/usr/sbin/nordvpnd /usr/sbin/nordvpnd: error while loading shared libraries: libxml2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Any suggestions?

Hello everyone, I noticed a while back that nordvpn was adding [Debug] entries into the journal every 5 seconds. Does anyone have a similar situation? I contacted nordvpn support, and their suggestion was 1) Reinstall nordvpn-bin - Done, and it did not make a difference, 2) use the snap version, which I do not want to do since I use Flatpak or pacman.
The nordvpn support then said they think its due to nordvpn-bin package which they cant help with anyway.

journal extract $ sudo journalctl -u nordvpnd|grep Mar nordvpnd[426]: 2025/03/05 09:40:10 [Debug] notifying about config change nordvpnd[426]: 2025/03/05 09:40:15 [Debug] notifying about config change nordvpnd[426]: 2025/03/05 09:40:20 [Debug] notifying about config change

$ inxi -CNi CPU: Info: dual core model: Intel Core i5 650 bits: 64 type: MT MCP cache: L2: 512 KiB Speed (MHz): avg: 1197 min/max: 1197/3193 cores: 1: 1197 2: 1197 3: 1197 4: 1197 Network: Device-1: Intel 82578DM Gigabit Network driver: e1000e IF: eno1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 70:71:bc:ac:30:bd IP v4: 192.168.50.249/24 type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global IF-ID-1: nordlynx state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: N/A IP v4: 10.5.0.2/10 scope: global WAN IP: ...

TIA

Is anyone else having an issue reconnecting to NordVPN via wifi after a suspend? Every time I wake from suspend, I lose internet due to NordVPN. I need to use sudo systemctl restart nordvpnd to get access again. I do not have KillSwitch on.

The repo address has changed,slightly:

https://repo.nordvpn.com/deb/nordvpn/debian/pool/main/n/nordvpn/

as in: https://repo.nordvpn.com/deb/nordvpn/debian/pool/main/n/nordvpn/nordvpn_3.19.0_amd64.deb

3.19.1 has been released as well.

 url: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404
ERROR: Failure while downloading https://repo.nordvpn.com/deb/nordvpn/debian/pool/main/nordvpn_3.19.0_amd64.deb
    Aborting...
error: failed to download sources for 'nordvpn-bin-3.19.0-2':

also getting the page not found with the 404 code