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
Good job, Mullvad!
Now add port forwarding back.
Yes that is so sad. No torrenting anymore just leeching. Sucks. But understandable, how do other VPS providers handle that?
Idk for the how but airvpn does for comparable prices. This coming from a fellow multi-tb Linux iso torrenter. Also I assume you mean VPN unless mullvad does VPS stuff I don’t know of.
Does your network not support UPnP? You shouldn’t normally need to port forward in order to seed a torrent, unless your network prevents NAT traversal.
Yay!
Still waiting for cross distro support with flatpak
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.
It appears to be possible https://flathub.org/apps/com.protonvpn.www
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.
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
I’m assuming VPNs are not really suited to be run as flatpak apps because of system permissions? And it probably won’t work from inside Distrobox/Toolbox container either.
As a Linux noo (or maybe someone that doesn’t keep up with the news, I don’t know), what’s Mullvad?
It’s like NordVPN but a bit more private.
- They don’t require an account (username/password) for you to use. You pay them for an account number and use Mullvad VPN by inputting it.
- They were about to be raided but they managed to get out of that with their lawyers.
- It’s also very easy to use on Linux because there’s a GUI, which is great. CLI seems overkill for an app that needs to be turned on and off (i.e. NordVPNJ my old VPN).
It’s overall nice.
