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How I install Mullvad on Silverblue based distros and add repos (feddit.uk)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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One of the things I struggled with initailly when using immutables was installing programs like VPNS that need to interact with the immutable parts of the distro but don't have a flatpak option. I figured I'd just make a post to help anyone with this specific issue regarding mullvad or if it helps people install other software they need.

Adding the repo

Jump into a location to download the repo file

cd Downloads/

Download the repo

wget https://repository.mullvad.net/rpm/stable/mullvad.repo

copy the repo file to the yum.repos.d folder

sudo cp mullvad.repo /etc/yum.repos.d

Install mullvad vpn

rpm-ostree install mullvad-vpn

Reboot to reimage

systemctl reboot

Join the client to the service

sudo systemctl enable --now mullvad-daemon

Install libappindicator that at the time wasn't included in Kinoite

sudo rpm-ostree install libappindicator-gtk3

Reboot to reimage

systemctl reboot

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I don't know anything about immutable distros, but any good VPN provide Wireguard or OpenVPN config that you can just import into your network settings/manager. Mullvad does.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

They do, but networkmanager doesnt have the necessary features like a block mode. Read my other comment.

Btw there is a GNOME applet for mullvadvpn, so you dont need to use electron, just the background stuff.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Came here to say this too

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

While this is true, using Wireguard or OpenVPN config files requires more fuss to change servers compared to using the provider's VPN client.