Can't install Mullvad

VPN
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I apologize in advance if I happen to offend anyone because of my ignorance and frustration.

I can’t install the mullvad-vpn package with the ‘helper’ program, or with the ‘git clone’ and ‘makepkg -si’ thing. I’m a total beginner with this OS, I really hope I don’t offend anyone when I say this but it’s been over a month since I’ve popped this in a virtual machine and barely anything works.

:: Resolving dependencies… :: There are 4 providers available for mullvad-vpn: :: Repository AUR: 1) mullvad-vpn 2) mullvad-vpn-beta 3) mullvad-vpn-beta-bin 4) mullvad-vpn-bin Enter a number (default=1): 1 :: Calculating conflicts… :: Calculating inner conflicts…

Aur (1) mullvad-vpn-2021.2-1

:: Proceed to review? [Y/n]: y

:: Downloading PKGBUILDs… PKGBUILDs up to date nothing new to review
:: keys need to be imported: 8339C7D2942EB854E3F27CE5AEE9DECFD582E984 wanted by: mullvad-vpn-2021.2-1
EA0A77BF9E115615FC3BD8BC7653B940E494FE87 wanted by: mullvad-vpn-2021.2-1 :: import? [Y/n]: y
gpg: keyserver receive failed: Server indicated a failure
fetching devel info…
==> Making package: mullvad-vpn 2021.2-1 (Fri 02 Apr 2021 07:38:03 PM EDT)
==> Retrieving sources…
→ Updating mullvadvpn-app git repo…
Fetching origin
→ Updating mullvadvpn-app-binaries git repo…
Fetching origin
→ Found mullvad-vpn.sh
==> Validating source files with sha256sums…
mullvadvpn-app … Skipped
mullvadvpn-app-binaries … Skipped
mullvad-vpn.sh … Passed
==> Verifying source file signatures with gpg…
mullvadvpn-app git repo … FAILED (unknown public key 78CEAA8CB72E4467)
mullvadvpn-app-binaries git repo … FAILED (unknown public key AEE9DECFD582E984)
==> ERROR: One or more PGP signatures could not be verified! :: Packages failed to build: mullvad-vpn-2021.2-1

I’m sorry if this is a waste of your time. After about a month of fumbling in the dark… well… I’m lost, and really dumb.

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Run gpg --recv-keys <key> for each of those two public keys (the shorter ones, like 78CEAA8CB72E4467). If they both import, try makepkg again. If not, show the error from gpg

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While it’s not directly related to this issue, you might be interested in using vopono to be run only specific applications through it (or different servers) - I’m a fellow Mullvad user.

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Well, again, as a total beginner, I get lost and confused just browsing the wiki. That’s why the disclaimer: I don’t want to offend anyone when they tell me to read the wiki when I just can’t even understand to process what I’m reading. Whether it’s because of the false consensus effect, or I’m just really dumb and slow.

So I checked the link, and I’m supposed to do a thing about PKGBUILD and keys, and download them?

I spent 3 days trying to find out what I needed to download (and a whole day learning how to download stuff, period.) I’ll try rifling through and hopefully I can figure something out.

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I’ll note that down and give it a go, thanks man. Got a lot of stuff going on in my life rn.

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Adding this for others in the future, I had the same problem and this fixed it, so thanks!

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I did that and it gave me the error “No data”

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It makes it easier to change between different locations and servers just by selecting it (rather than having to import a new wg profile each time) and provides a single network interface for all of them (wg-mullvad) that I can bind qBittorrent to

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Yeah I read that you can do the VPN through like OpenVPN and that, I’m just an overwhelmed beginner who doesn’t even know what these things are, hah. Well, in life. I might take a look at that if nothing else works. Thanks man.

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Alright, sounds like something I might check out next on the list, but we’ll see if I can even figure that out. Thanks for the suggestion.

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Yay is actively maintained. I don’t know where this misunderstanding originated. The last commit was two weeks ago. DT is no valid source ffs.

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The key has likely changed since this original post was made. Grab the ones listed in the validpgpkeys in the current PKGBUILD

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Not sure what this was about, I guess yay or something. I’m just gonna chunk through the problem slowly and see if something works. Thanks.

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I managed to solve it in the end, now i have a new problem: the pc doesnt wake up from suspension, only with a reboot

Edit: I ditched the entire thing and just reinstalled arch​:joy: (fortunately I’ve separated partitions so I only needed to install some minor packages since their executables were stored in the root partition :joy:)