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"Please, do not flag this package as out-of-date until there's the official release on Github page."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 3.17.4v:

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 two files ovpn_template.xlst and ovpn_xor_template.xlst were not previously shipped with the nordvpn-bin package, but created by the application at runtime.

This means pacman does not know to remove them before upgrading.

A quick fix would be to just remove the files before upgrading:

sudo rm /var/lib/nordvpn/{ovpn_template,ovpn_xor_template}.xslt

I am receiving this error when updating

error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
nordvpn-bin: /var/lib/nordvpn/ovpn_template.xslt exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

Here is a new patch based on bubuntux's version. Also I wouldn't mind being a co-maintainer.

https://pastebin.com/raw/VePV3nvS

Changes:

• remove openvpn dependency as nordvpn ships with their own openvpn binary src
• add libxlst, iptables and procps as dependencies as they are listed in the deb package as dependencies src
• update source to 2.1.0_5
• move systemd files to the proper arch location src
• add comment with maintainer src

Patch to latest version 2.1.0-3 https://pastebin.com/raw/AFFgYgCW

The openvpn package is no longer required as a dependency. Now the deb package uses its own openvpn binary (/var/lib/nordvpn/openvpn)

These are the dependencies (according to the control file, inside the deb): Depends: systemd, procps, net-tools, iptables, xsltproc