Nord VPN in repo ?

Bouquins

Hello all ! Is there a way to get Nord VPN in the Solus repo ? It's available for Ubuntu and derivatives, CentOS, Fedora, OpenSuse...

Thank you !

alfisya

There is package request for it. If someone comes forward to maintain it, I think it will be approved.

Unfortunately, it is not available as flatpak in Flathub. There is a snap tho. It is not ideal, but snap is still supported by Solus until the end of the year. Maybe, you can use that for now?

MikeK61

Is there a security issue using snap ?
I installed the nordvpn app via snap and it works great.
I used the openvpn version until yesterday and wouldn`t like to return.

AlphaElwedritsch

MikeK61 it's not more out less insecure then flatpak. But snap will be removed in solus by end of the year.

https://getsol.us/2024/07/15/dropping-apparmor-kernel-patches/

MikeK61

Thanks for your reply, but of course i`m aware about that.
More interesting would be if i can still use this app afterwards if it will not be in the repo.
Not much response on the package request.

AlphaElwedritsch

No, you cannot use it anymore after end of 2024
There's only one possibility, don't upgrade/update your system after December.
But, that would be a stupid decision and I would not recommend it