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"Please, do not flag this package as out-of-date until there's the official release on Github page."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 3.19.1:

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

Anyone encountered this error when trying to sort servers? sudo nordvpn best -r eu

timeout: sending signal INT to command ‘python3’
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/etc/openvpn/client/nordvpn/servers.py", line 186, in <module>
    print(get_best(servers, args))
  File "/etc/openvpn/client/nordvpn/servers.py", line 105, in get_best
    pings = pingservers(servers.name.tolist(), count=args.pingcount)
  File "/etc/openvpn/client/nordvpn/servers.py", line 77, in pingservers
    res = run(
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py", line 491, in run
    stdout, stderr = process.communicate(input, timeout=timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py", line 1014, in communicate
    stderr = self.stderr.read()
KeyboardInterrupt

Will you please update the package to the newest version? Thank you.

As we're sharing, you might find these ~/.bash_aliases helpful...

nordvpn

alias nordgood="yay -Si nordvpn-bin | grep --color=never Out-of-date | awk '{ print $3 "" "" $4 }'" alias nordstat="nordvpn status" alias nsc='nordvpn status | grep -i status'

What the hell is up with those CRs on the status output? I should have went here first, because it took me forever to find out why my scripts suddenly failed.

@Haystack Thank you very much, because I don't know how long I would have kept searching, if I hadn't read your comment.

If anyone is interested, this is how you filter that out with sed: nordvpn status | cat -v | sed 's/\^M-^M ^M//g'

sudo nordvpn list No configuration files found or files too old. Updating now... Downloading nordvpn config files... [nordvpn.zip] End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on the last disk(s) of this archive. unzip: cannot find zipfile directory in one of nordvpn.zip or nordvpn.zip.zip, and cannot find nordvpn.zip.ZIP, period. /usr/bin/nordvpn: line 113: msg_exit: command not found Patching and installing files...

you can use this packagebuild until maintainer fixes http://dpaste.com/1JS73PD

New update to nordvpn prints a load of invisible garbage characters in its output:

~
❯ nordvpn status | cat -v                                            
^M-^M  ^M^M-^M  ^MStatus: Disconnected

Broke a couple of my scripts so maybe this will help someone else experiencing similar problems.

Checking the dependencies in the Nordvpn package for Debian, I noticed that some dependencies have changed. The new dependency vector is: depends = ('libxslt' 'iptables' 'procps' 'iproute2' 'ipset' 'ca-certificates')

I'm using NordLynx without any of the two packages below and from what I've researched, NordLynx is a proprietary implementation of Wireguard, it would need further testing, but I think the optional dependencies below could be removed: optdepends = ('wireguard-tools: nordlynx support' 'wireguard-arch: nordlynx support')

I updated it to the new version... If anyone needs it http://ix.io/2iqT

Updated to the new version 3.7.1

pkgname=nordvpn-bin pkgver=3.7.1 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="NordVPN CLI tool for Linux" arch=('x86_64' 'i686' 'armv7h') url="https://nordvpn.com/download/linux/" license=('custom') depends=('net-tools' 'libxslt' 'iptables' 'procps' 'iproute2') optdepends=('wireguard-tools: nordlynx support' 'wireguard-arch: nordlynx support') provides=('nordvpn') conflicts=('openvpn-nordvpn') install=nordvpn-bin.install source_x86_64=("https://repo.nordvpn.com/deb/nordvpn/debian/pool/main/nordvpn_${pkgver///-}_amd64.deb") source_i686=("https://repo.nordvpn.com/deb/nordvpn/debian/pool/main/nordvpn_${pkgver///-}i386.deb") source_armv7h=("https://repo.nordvpn.com/deb/nordvpn/debian/pool/main/nordvpn_${pkgver///-}_armhf.deb") sha256sums_x86_64=('2385b1361be082ae18a9d018787cd5e54943e26b9285fca115093aa16897f766') sha256sums_i686=('baf90c370c42bb89fe3dee4c40d0f95adc2e3d393bccea541e9cf9d9a2dd0197') sha256sums_armv7h=('9f7cd08edbb1d50660838b1f035aa01b5943447ad2bebe0a45e604ab8df2912a')

package() { bsdtar -O -xf *.deb data.tar.xz | bsdtar -C "${pkgdir}" -xJf -

mv "${pkgdir}/usr/sbin/nordvpnd" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
rm -r "${pkgdir}/etc/init.d"
rm -r "${pkgdir}/usr/sbin"

}