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How to install and uninstall the Mullvad VPN app on Linux.

You can easily add them by following the instructions on their site.

On immutable fedora it can be done via

curl -o - https://repository.mullvad.net/rpm/stable/mullvad.repo | sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/mullvad.repo

rpm-ostree uninstall mullvad-vpn --install mullvad-vpn

# after reboot, if not working
sudo systemctl start mullvad-daemon
    • NateNate60@lemmy.world
      9·
      2 years ago

      Is Flatpak, from a technical standpoint, capable of running VPN applications?

      Providing .ovpn configuration files would be equally cross-distro, and in fact, would be cross-platform since almost every operating system supports importing OpenVPN configurations or supports a piece of software that does.

      • dauerstaender@feddit.de
        3·
        2 years ago

        I can’t tell you how, because I don’t know the technical details either, but why shouldn’t it be? If given the right permissions it can access the same interfaces as any process.

        • NateNate60@lemmy.world
          4·
          2 years ago

          I ask because to my knowledge, Flatpak applications don’t get access to the system interfaces that are needed to control VPN connections. There isn’t a portal for it to the best of my knowledge and the way that VPN connections are handled differ between distros.

    • Pantherina@feddit.deOP
      61·
      2 years ago

      It is a bit hard to do, because they have systemd services, early boot blocking and all that. Not possible with Flatpak so they dont waste Time.

    • interceder270@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 years ago

      Lol, I was just thinking ‘nice to see people still using native package managers.’

      Is Mullvad not available for your distro?

  • wyzim@lemmy.ml
    51·
    2 years ago

    I’m assuming VPNs are not really suited to be run as flatpak apps because of system permissions? And it probably won’t work from inside Distrobox/Toolbox container either.

  • bizdelnick@lemmy.ml
    3·
    2 years ago

    wget https://repository.mullvad.net/rpm/stable/mullvad.repo | sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/mullvad.repo

    This command won’t work.

    • Pantherina@feddit.deOP
      2·
      2 years ago

      Better? I was not sure did it with cd and forgot the parameters for wget XD isnt it -O /path/to/destination/ ?

      • Baut auf. she/her@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        2·
        2 years ago

        I think you can just replace wget with curl.
        Alternatively -O - I think.
        You can’t use the path directly because of permissions. And you shouldn’t run wget with root permissions.

        • Pantherina@feddit.deOP
          1·
          2 years ago

          Yes thats why I did that and seperated it from the wget as I also think thats not the best idea

          Okay fixed it. Damn thats weird, I think I just used sudo wget X -O /path/ but not a good idea I guess.

      • Kazumara@feddit.de
        5·
        2 years ago

        Because wget doesn’t use standard output for the downloaded file by default, instead it creates a file with the name in the url in the workingdir. If you want it to use standard output you need -O -