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https://mullvad.net/en/help/install-mullvad-app-linux

Trying to install VPN and these are the instructions Mullvad is giving me. This is ridiculous. There must be a more simple way. I know how to follow the instructions but I have no idea what I'm doing here. Can't I just download a file and install it? I'm on Ubuntu.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Thanks for the explanation. However trying to run the first command gives me sudo: curl: command not found

So I'm stuck right there in the first step lol

[–] NekkoDroid 63 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I would have guessed that Ubuntu would install it by default since its a very common way to get stuff from the internet (when in the terminal), but apparently not (the other option is wget which is most likely installed, but that uses a different way to get the stuff).

You should be able to install curl with sudo apt install curl

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My fresh Debian install didn't have that too and I thought it came with the installation

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Debian doesn't even come with sudo, git or curl by default. It's kind of minimal on purpose.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

It always throws me off on a fresh install when I can't sudo

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I didn't know that any distribution comes with git preinstalled.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

That should be easily solved with: sudo apt install curl

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

You have two options: install curl (check @[email protected]'s comment) or do it manually. Installing curl is the easiest.

If you want to do it the hard way (without the terminal), here's how:

  1. Download the file https://repository.mullvad.net/deb/mullvad-keyring.asc from your web browser.
  2. Open your file browser as administrator. There's probably some link for that in the Menu.
  3. Move the file that you just downloaded to the directory /usr/share/keyrings/
[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Really appreciate your replies dude. So many are being a bit of an jerks here, but you (and few other) have been really helpful.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

You're welcome.

I think that people being jerks take for granted how confusing this might be, if you're new; we (people in general) tend to take vocab that we already know for granted, as well as solutions for small problems. ...except that it doesn't work when you're starting out, and we all need to start out somewhere, right.

[–] astraeus 3 points 10 months ago

Yeah, once you work in Linux for so long seeing someone ask about curl missing is really easy to take for granted that we all started there, we’ve all been fresh on Linux. A lot of people take pride in their experience, but they shouldn’t lord it over those who are learning to advance themselves. It’s completely counter to why Linux even exists.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

curl is a good tool to have in general, you can install it with sudo apt install curl

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Wow, interesting. You may be able to install curl to fix that like this:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install curl

Can't hurt to try

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

sudo apt install curl

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago
sudo apt install curl
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

sudo apt install curl