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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] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Why not just "Flatpak" it and be done with it?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Doesnt work. Networkmanager has no native concept of a "airtight VPN mode".

The mullvad daemon does stuff like

control DNS
block internet when not connected
prevent early boot connections

Those require it to be privileged. For sure it would be nice to have all these features integrated into networkmanager, and vpn apps just placing their wireguard configs and DNS settings in there.

But for now the Mullvad App is way better than what we have. You can also keep a very insecure DNS conf (no DNSSEC, no DOT, no custom servers) as a fallback for public wifi bs, and when the Mullvad app is running the system uses a secure DNS.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Very good points. But can't you provide those permissions to the flatpak via flatseal or something?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Good question, but nope: https://discourse.flathub.org/t/vpn-mullvad-vpn/2594/7

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

Well, that sucks.

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

Only if there was a portal, I would suppose. But idk to be honest. Flatpaks can write to /etc if they want.