NordVPN does not install in Ubuntu 18.04.02 LTS

Having bought NordVPN and installed on one Windows PC (easy) and on one running Elementary OS Juno (difficult) I am now finding that nothing works to get it installed on a machine running Ubuntu. The NordVPN installation instructions are useless and help there is nonexistent. I tried the terminal commands that work in Elementary, as follows:

cd ~/Downloads
sudo apt-get install ./nordvpn-release_1.0.0_all.deb
sudo apt-get update

It fails after the second command on which it seems only to be updating Ubuntu. I tried the final installation command: sudo apt-get install nordvpn and it returned E: unable to locate package VPN.

Is there a better VPN for Linux, preferably one with a GUI?

1 Answer

Manually add the repository by going to the software & updates app, then click on Other Software and add either of the following lines depending on your system architecture:

deb [arch=amd64] stable main
deb [arch=i386 ] stable main

Open your terminal and run:

$ sudo apt update

You may most likely encounter a GPG error of NO_PUBKEY, copy the following code to the terminal and run:

sudo wget -O - | sudo apt-key add -

This would fix the error.

Finally, run:

$ sudo apt install nordvpn

Tada!

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