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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Still waiting for cross distro support with flatpak

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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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4 points

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

Is Mullvad not available for your distro?

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3 points

Learn how flatpak is a security anti-pattern.

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2 points

Care to expand on that?

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L e a r n h o w f l a t p a k i s a s e c u r i t y a n t i - p a t t e r n .

/s

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