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"Please, do not flag this package as out-of-date until there's the official release on Github page."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

Create the nordvpn.sysusers file with the information:

g nordvpn - -

Install via PKGBUILD:

install -Dm 644 nordvpn.sysusers "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/sysusers.d/nordvpn.conf"

Finally instruct the user to add themselves to the nordvpn group:

# gpasswd -a USERNAME nordvpn

Following others instruction, the nordvpn service is running. However the user can not interact with the service only root can (this is with the user added to the nordvpn group and after restart).

For my part, I found out where the problem was coming from. I had created a Firejail profile that worked so far. I had to remove nogroups and noroot to get the app nordvpn running.

I'm having some problem. After few minutes of connection, an exclamation mark comes on the wifi (saying Limit connectivity) and then no website loads anymore; as if I'm disconnected.

I've tried the whitelist subnet method (mentioned on the NordVPN CLI Arch wiki), restarted the Network Manager and rebooted but nothing worked. I have to keep disconnecting and reconnecting the wifi in a loop to keep it working. Pinging to 1.1.1.1 and google.com gives fail messages. Only ping to gateway IP address works. Can anybody give some advice? I'm using Manjaro KDE.

Thanks

@kamil: Works fine, thanks!

@kamil: your advice works for me as well, I rebooted to get it to work. (Using Manjaro)

@Techi-Joe, @Th30: Are you guys by any chance using an HTTP proxy?

The file is missing to create the group dynamically, using systemd-sysusers.

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-sysusers.html

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/sysusers.d.html#