MullvadVPN Tricks: Making MullvadVPN work better on GNU/Linux

Making MullvadVPN work better on GNU/Linux. Contribute to boredsquirrel/MullvadVPN-Tricks development by creating an account on GitHub.

Just made a dedicated repo about a bunch of tricks I regularly use.

A KDE Plasmoid is definetly missing on that list. Having it work without garbage Electron, at least most of the time, is crucial.

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Cool. Btw, I'm using gluetun container, and sending through VPN only a few containarrs. It's just another take, instead of running the VPN connection on the OS level and then whitelisting apps for exclusion.
The one-line command I recommend for install Mullvad's RPM repo is as follows:
curl --tlsv1.3 -fsS https://repository.mullvad.net/rpm/stable/mullvad.repo | pkexec tee -a "/etc/yum.repos.d/mullvad.repo"

My explanation: This curl command enforces strong TLS encryption and pipes the fetched repo file to the tee (append) command, which requests to run with root permissions and appends the file to the specified path. pkexec is useful instead of plain sudo because if the current user isn't in wheel/sudo groul it requests the local admin account to authenticate.
- That is nice, I will update it
  
  Replying to remind you.
- https://github.com/boredsquirrel/MullvadVPN-Tricks/commit/decdb5e0c66406519f0c83827ab9ee508e8ddce6
  
  Thanks! Not sure why you used tee -a, isnt that append?
  
  I used tee -a because that is how I have seen it recommended. If it works without then do that instead.

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