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Mullvad has Deb and RPM repositories now! (mullvad.net)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (10 children)

Still waiting for cross distro support with flatpak

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months 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.

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