Mullvad VPN Installation
How would I go about installing Mullvad VPN? I need the desktop app specifically for the VPN to work
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use
sudo system install <package>
if mullvad is in the arch repos
VPNs don't work in containersIt's in the AUR I'm pretty sure
then try a flatpak
There isn't a flatpak available through KDE's discover tho
or running a tar as root with user exec
no AUR support for system
oh wait
try mullvad over openvpn
install openvpn via
sudo system install openvpn
then sudo openvpn <config>.ovpn
should be able to make an openvpn config in your mullvad account portal
@EmmaI need obfuscation over wireguard for mullvad to work and mullvad can't generate certs with obfuscation afaik
wireguard is in the archrepos tho
ok
But there's no obfuscation when generating configs for wireguard with mullvad
then obfuscate them
make some shell scripts
That's not what I mean
well you can't get the GUI
unless they have a tar.gz or smth
guess you can wait for AUR support
Can't I manually install the AUR package with makepkg -si
no tool to run commands on the host
What if I chroot in from an arch iso?
nope
don't think that would be the root system either
you could try that
see what happens
Alright
Any update on this? Isn't this the Mullvad GUI https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mullvad-vpn can't that be used?
ATM no, but @Rudra | blendOS, Ubuntu Unity is planning on letting you install select aur packages.
And he could probably allow that one
I installed BlendOS last week and Mulldav and Espanso where part of my workflow... i am so far unable to run them.
Once mullvad can be run on blendOS I will install it on my main pc.
by archiving the chaotic aur
you can now install it using git, makepkg and my mutifier: https://git.blendos.co/asterisk/blendos-mutifier
install the wireguard network manager addon and use that
or do that
The exact same issue will bleed into the usage for virtualbox and the like (kernel modules)
there must be a better solution even if it could be a bit ghetto
VanillaOS has the exact same issue, cannot use mullvad/virtualbox etc because of this issue BlendOS has as well, being "too" read-only
Loading the kernel module does not work either which I tried, not sure what is going on
You might be able to fiddle with the mutifier list to access the kernel files
The problem is as well the modules do "load" but the programs don't recognize it, I'm not a complete expert in sandboxing, maybe it's an permission issue but I played around with permissions but couldn't get it to work
maybe the modules load in the wrong sandbox environment or something so they're isolated but I'm no expert in this immutability+sandboxing
Or there is a whitelist of modules being able to access
I remember from years ago that people had to fiddle with the config files (e.g. nvidia) to load the kernel modules, I have not tried this I must admit
Probably the containers can’t access the custom modules
Probably yes, I don't have an understanding unfortunately why/how, SeLinux?
It’s arch
So no
Not SELinux
I used mutifier
made /usr/ and /var/lib/pacman/ temporarily writable, added chaotic aur and then installed it with sudo pacman -Syu mullvad-vpn
However I can't use sudo system install to install it, because it throws a pgp issue
weird
use a codeblock, and you can't do that
you can't add extra repos or mirrorlists
they'll get wiped
just get the package from the AUR using git and makepkg