Package to add before nordvpn 'manual add' could work
Jan 31, 2022 22:31:22 GMT
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Post by arigato on Jan 31, 2022 22:31:22 GMT
I had problems with nordvpn's linux install via terminal on Bodhi and their technical support tried to assist but could not get a result. The standard fallback is to manually add nordvpn servers as required ...from a TCP and UDP folder that you have to download from the nordvpn web site from a zip file.
Manual install comprises right clicking on the native Bodhi network manager and navigating: Edit Connections / click the plus icon in the bottom left of the next window / click the small down arrow in the box that shows Ethernet as the first value in the next window and scroll down to the very bottom to left click on:
'Import a saved VPN configuration ...' and you then do folder navigation to your saved nordvpn TCP or UDP folder and on opening the desired folder double left click on the server that is wanted. At that point things failed because the right window did not appear.
If the right window had appeared, the transfer of IP address and certificate should be instantaneous into a waiting Network Manger VPN new connection window with a number of fields and you would add your nordvpn name in the 'name field' box and nordvpn password in the 'password' box and finally click save .to make this server available to Network Manager.
I was also working on a few other distros and on one of the distros I added a nordvpn server manually without any problems. I noted that the window from the native Bodhi Network Manger was different and likely older than that of the distro that worked, so I noted the version and name of the network manager entry in the Synaptic Software Installer and compared that to Bodhi's.
In Debian Buster 4.3 (MX18 Linux) there were three packages:
network-manager-openvpn-gnome 1.8.10-1
network-manager-openconnect-gnome 1.2.4-2
network manager-gnome 1-8.20-1.1
Back in Bohdi I searched under 'network manager' in Synaptic Package Manager and there was a package not installed which was the closest to the above which I installed: 'network-manager-gnome 1.8.10-2ubuntu3' and I found that I now had the right window appear during the manual add of a server using the:
'Import a saved VPN configuration ...' option. Problem solved.
Note: After install of this package a number of network related packages flagged up with orange exclamation marks in Synaptic Package Manager, to indicate that an upgrade was possible, so I duly 'marked' and 'applied' on these packages. I then had a further set of packages indicating likewise and I repeated. Further packages were then marked for upgrade and when I did this as before, there were no more packages to be upgraded.
As a newby there may be more elegant ways to get this done ...as there is often more than one way of doing something. I have made this entry purely to assist others and this thread can be marked as 'solved'.
Suggestion: why not add 'network-manager-gnome 1.8.10-2ubuntu3' to the normal Bodhi Updates, so as to match the 'auto-populate network manager window' functionality that other distros already have?
Additional on 3/2/2022: Just to add that I could have articulated the original fundamental issue a little bit better as follows: network-manager-openconnect-gnome 1.2.x ...where 'x' is anything, does enable the manual input of server details per field, into the waiting network manager new VPN server from a save file window.
Hence you must sift through some twenty fields of information associated with an individual nordvpn server and paste the IP address and certificate into the waiting network manager window and follow on with your alpha numeric nordvpn name and your alpha numeric password, which is no longer your email address and nordvpn site logon password but the twenty odd digit alphanumeric strings provided on the nordvpn website after login by browser by selecting nordvpn service within your account and scroll down to advanced ...where they are stored.
Each time you renew your web site password the alpha numeric string value for the use of manually entered nordvpn servers via network manager also changes, so you need to renew the alphanumeric string for the password on any existing manually stored servers in network manager before they will work again.
By installing the 'network-manager-gnome 1.8.10-2ubuntu3' package you are raising the capability of network-manager-gnome to be able to auto-populate the IP address and the certificate fields as I took for granted, having been spoiled by other distros!
Manual install comprises right clicking on the native Bodhi network manager and navigating: Edit Connections / click the plus icon in the bottom left of the next window / click the small down arrow in the box that shows Ethernet as the first value in the next window and scroll down to the very bottom to left click on:
'Import a saved VPN configuration ...' and you then do folder navigation to your saved nordvpn TCP or UDP folder and on opening the desired folder double left click on the server that is wanted. At that point things failed because the right window did not appear.
If the right window had appeared, the transfer of IP address and certificate should be instantaneous into a waiting Network Manger VPN new connection window with a number of fields and you would add your nordvpn name in the 'name field' box and nordvpn password in the 'password' box and finally click save .to make this server available to Network Manager.
I was also working on a few other distros and on one of the distros I added a nordvpn server manually without any problems. I noted that the window from the native Bodhi Network Manger was different and likely older than that of the distro that worked, so I noted the version and name of the network manager entry in the Synaptic Software Installer and compared that to Bodhi's.
In Debian Buster 4.3 (MX18 Linux) there were three packages:
network-manager-openvpn-gnome 1.8.10-1
network-manager-openconnect-gnome 1.2.4-2
network manager-gnome 1-8.20-1.1
Back in Bohdi I searched under 'network manager' in Synaptic Package Manager and there was a package not installed which was the closest to the above which I installed: 'network-manager-gnome 1.8.10-2ubuntu3' and I found that I now had the right window appear during the manual add of a server using the:
'Import a saved VPN configuration ...' option. Problem solved.
Note: After install of this package a number of network related packages flagged up with orange exclamation marks in Synaptic Package Manager, to indicate that an upgrade was possible, so I duly 'marked' and 'applied' on these packages. I then had a further set of packages indicating likewise and I repeated. Further packages were then marked for upgrade and when I did this as before, there were no more packages to be upgraded.
As a newby there may be more elegant ways to get this done ...as there is often more than one way of doing something. I have made this entry purely to assist others and this thread can be marked as 'solved'.
Suggestion: why not add 'network-manager-gnome 1.8.10-2ubuntu3' to the normal Bodhi Updates, so as to match the 'auto-populate network manager window' functionality that other distros already have?
Additional on 3/2/2022: Just to add that I could have articulated the original fundamental issue a little bit better as follows: network-manager-openconnect-gnome 1.2.x ...where 'x' is anything, does enable the manual input of server details per field, into the waiting network manager new VPN server from a save file window.
Hence you must sift through some twenty fields of information associated with an individual nordvpn server and paste the IP address and certificate into the waiting network manager window and follow on with your alpha numeric nordvpn name and your alpha numeric password, which is no longer your email address and nordvpn site logon password but the twenty odd digit alphanumeric strings provided on the nordvpn website after login by browser by selecting nordvpn service within your account and scroll down to advanced ...where they are stored.
Each time you renew your web site password the alpha numeric string value for the use of manually entered nordvpn servers via network manager also changes, so you need to renew the alphanumeric string for the password on any existing manually stored servers in network manager before they will work again.
By installing the 'network-manager-gnome 1.8.10-2ubuntu3' package you are raising the capability of network-manager-gnome to be able to auto-populate the IP address and the certificate fields as I took for granted, having been spoiled by other distros!