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PSA: Upstream does not support building natively for ARM64, only cross-compiling. You can use mullvad-vpn-bin instead.

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I can't build either

  • electron-builder  version=23.6.0 os=6.2.9-273-tkg-cfs
  • writing effective config  file=/home/hurricane/.cache/paru/clone/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/dist/builder-effective-config.yaml
  • packaging       platform=linux arch=x64 electron=21.3.3 appOutDir=/home/hurricane/.cache/paru/clone/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/dist/linux-unpacked
  • file source doesn't exist  from=/home/hurricane/.cache/paru/clone/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/build/relays.json
  • building        target=deb arch=x64 file=/home/hurricane/.cache/paru/clone/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/dist/MullvadVPN-2023.3_amd64.deb
  ⨯ cannot execute  cause=exit status 1
                    out={:timestamp=>"2023-04-06T01:14:17.223005-0500", :message=>"Invalid package configuration: Cannot chdir to '/home/hurricane/.cache/paru/clone/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/build/shell-completions'. Does it exist?", :level=>:error}

                    command=/home/hurricane/.cache/electron-builder/fpm/fpm-1.9.3-2.3.1-linux-x86_64/fpm -s dir --force -t deb -d libgtk-3-0 -d libnotify4 -d libnss3 -d libxss1 -d libxtst6 -d xdg-utils -d libatspi2.0-0 -d libuuid1 -d libsecret-1-0 --deb-recommends libappindicator3-1 --deb-compression xz --architecture amd64 --after-install /tmp/t-qd9D0a/0-after-install.sh --after-remove /tmp/t-qd9D0a/1-after-remove.sh --description '
     Mullvad VPN client' --version 2023.3 --package /home/hurricane/.cache/paru/clone/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/dist/MullvadVPN-2023.3_amd64.deb --name mullvad-vpn --maintainer 'Mullvad VPN <support@mullvad.net>' --url 'https://github.com/mullvad/mullvadvpn-app#readme' --vendor 'Mullvad VPN <support@mullvad.net>' --deb-priority optional --license GPL-3.0 --no-depends --version 2023.3 --before-install /home/hurricane/.cache/paru/clone/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/dist-assets/linux/before-install.sh --before-remove /home/hurricane/.cache/paru/clone/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/dist-assets/linux/before-remove.sh /home/hurricane/.cache/paru/clone/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/dist-assets/linux/mullvad-daemon.service=/usr/lib/systemd/system/mullvad-daemon.service /home/hurricane/.cache/paru/clone/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/dist-assets/linux/mullvad-early-boot-blocking.service=/usr/lib/systemd/system/mullvad-early-boot-blocking.service /home/hurricane/.cache/paru/clone/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/dist-assets/mullvad=/usr/bin/ /home/hurricane/.cache/paru/clone/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/dist-assets/mullvad-daemon=/usr/bin/ /home/hurricane/.cache/paru/clone/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/dist-assets/mullvad-exclude=/usr/bin/ /home/hurricane/.cache/paru/clone/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/dist-assets/linux/problem-report-link=/usr/bin/mullvad-problem-report /home/hurricane/.cache/paru/clone/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/build/shell-completions/mullvad.bash=/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/mullvad /home/hurricane/.cache/paru/clone/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/build/shell-completions/_mullvad=/usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions/_mullvad /home/hurricane/.cache/paru/clone/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/build/shell-completions/mullvad.fish=/usr/share/fish/vendor_completions.d/mullvad.fish '/home/hurricane/.cache/paru/clone/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/dist/linux-unpacked/=/opt/Mullvad VPN' /home/hurricane/.cache/paru/clone/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/dist/.icon-set/icon_16x16.png=/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/mullvad-vpn.png /home/hurricane/.cache/paru/clone/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/dist/.icon-set/icon_32.png=/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/mullvad-vpn.png /home/hurricane/.cache/paru/clone/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/dist/.icon-set/icon_48x48.png=/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/mullvad-vpn.png /home/hurricane/.cache/paru/clone/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/dist/.icon-set/icon_64.png=/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/mullvad-vpn.png /home/hurricane/.cache/paru/clone/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/dist/.icon-set/icon_128.png=/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/mullvad-vpn.png /home/hurricane/.cache/paru/clone/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/dist/.icon-set/icon_256.png=/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/mullvad-vpn.png /home/hurricane/.cache/paru/clone/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/dist/.icon-set/icon_512.png=/usr/share/icons/hicolor/512x512/apps/mullvad-vpn.png /home/hurricane/.cache/paru/clone/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/dist/.icon-set/icon_1024.png=/usr/share/icons/hicolor/1024x1024/apps/mullvad-vpn.png '/tmp/t-qd9D0a/2-Mullvad VPN.desktop=/usr/share/applications/mullvad-vpn.desktop'
                    workingDir=
[01:14:17] 'builder-linux' errored after 3.04 s
[01:14:17] Error: /home/hurricane/.cache/paru/clone/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/gui/node_modules/app-builder-bin/linux/x64/app-builder process failed ERR_ELECTRON_BUILDER_CANNOT_EXECUTE
Exit code:
2
    at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/home/hurricane/.cache/paru/clone/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/gui/node_modules/builder-util/src/util.ts:250:14)
    at Object.onceWrapper (node:events:627:26)
    at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:512:28)
    at ChildProcess.emit (node:domain:552:15)
    at maybeClose (node:internal/child_process:1098:16)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:304:5)
    at Process.callbackTrampoline (node:internal/async_hooks:130:17)
[01:14:17] 'pack-linux' errored after 13 s
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...

can't build (version mullvad-vpn 2023.3-1 )

[03:30:38] Starting 'browserify-renderer'...
[03:30:41] Finished 'browserify-preload' after 2.29 s
[03:30:44] Finished 'browserify-renderer' after 5.77 s
[03:30:44] Finished 'build' after 31 s
[03:30:44] Starting 'builder-linux'...
  • electron-builder  version=23.6.0 os=6.2.9-arch1-1
  • writing effective config  file=/home/luca/system/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/dist/builder-effective-config.yaml
  • packaging       platform=linux arch=x64 electron=21.3.3 appOutDir=/home/luca/system/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/dist/linux-unpacked
  • file source doesn't exist  from=/home/luca/system/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/build/relays.json
  • building        target=deb arch=x64 file=/home/luca/system/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/dist/MullvadVPN-2023.3_amd64.deb
  ⨯ cannot execute  cause=exit status 1
                    out={:timestamp=>"2023-04-06T03:30:56.466890+0200", :message=>"Invalid package configuration: Cannot chdir to '/home/luca/system/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/build/shell-completions'. Does it exist?", :level=>:error}

                    command=/home/luca/.cache/electron-builder/fpm/fpm-1.9.3-2.3.1-linux-x86_64/fpm -s dir --force -t deb -d libgtk-3-0 -d libnotify4 -d libnss3 -d libxss1 -d libxtst6 -d xdg-utils -d libatspi2.0-0 -d libuuid1 -d libsecret-1-0 --deb-recommends libappindicator3-1 --deb-compression xz --architecture amd64 --after-install /tmp/t-FJFj4Q/0-after-install.sh --after-remove /tmp/t-FJFj4Q/1-after-remove.sh --description '
     Mullvad VPN client' --version 2023.3 --package /home/luca/system/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/dist/MullvadVPN-2023.3_amd64.deb --name mullvad-vpn --maintainer 'Mullvad VPN <support@mullvad.net>' --url 'https://github.com/mullvad/mullvadvpn-app#readme' --vendor 'Mullvad VPN <support@mullvad.net>' --deb-priority optional --license GPL-3.0 --no-depends --version 2023.3 --before-install /home/luca/system/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/dist-assets/linux/before-install.sh --before-remove /home/luca/system/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/dist-assets/linux/before-remove.sh /home/luca/system/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/dist-assets/linux/mullvad-daemon.service=/usr/lib/systemd/system/mullvad-daemon.service /home/luca/system/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/dist-assets/linux/mullvad-early-boot-blocking.service=/usr/lib/systemd/system/mullvad-early-boot-blocking.service /home/luca/system/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/dist-assets/mullvad=/usr/bin/ /home/luca/system/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/dist-assets/mullvad-daemon=/usr/bin/ /home/luca/system/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/dist-assets/mullvad-exclude=/usr/bin/ /home/luca/system/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/dist-assets/linux/problem-report-link=/usr/bin/mullvad-problem-report /home/luca/system/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/build/shell-completions/mullvad.bash=/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/mullvad /home/luca/system/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/build/shell-completions/_mullvad=/usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions/_mullvad /home/luca/system/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/build/shell-completions/mullvad.fish=/usr/share/fish/vendor_completions.d/mullvad.fish '/home/luca/system/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/dist/linux-unpacked/=/opt/Mullvad VPN' /home/luca/system/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/dist/.icon-set/icon_16x16.png=/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/mullvad-vpn.png /home/luca/system/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/dist/.icon-set/icon_32.png=/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/mullvad-vpn.png /home/luca/system/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/dist/.icon-set/icon_48x48.png=/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/mullvad-vpn.png /home/luca/system/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/dist/.icon-set/icon_64.png=/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/mullvad-vpn.png /home/luca/system/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/dist/.icon-set/icon_128.png=/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/mullvad-vpn.png /home/luca/system/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/dist/.icon-set/icon_256.png=/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/mullvad-vpn.png /home/luca/system/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/dist/.icon-set/icon_512.png=/usr/share/icons/hicolor/512x512/apps/mullvad-vpn.png /home/luca/system/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/dist/.icon-set/icon_1024.png=/usr/share/icons/hicolor/1024x1024/apps/mullvad-vpn.png '/tmp/t-FJFj4Q/2-Mullvad VPN.desktop=/usr/share/applications/mullvad-vpn.desktop'
                    workingDir=
[03:30:56] 'builder-linux' errored after 12 s
[03:30:56] Error: /home/luca/system/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/gui/node_modules/app-builder-bin/linux/x64/app-builder process failed ERR_ELECTRON_BUILDER_CANNOT_EXECUTE
Exit code:
2
    at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/home/luca/system/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/gui/node_modules/builder-util/src/util.ts:250:14)
    at Object.onceWrapper (node:events:627:26)
    at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:512:28)
    at ChildProcess.emit (node:domain:552:15)
    at maybeClose (node:internal/child_process:1098:16)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:304:5)
    at Process.callbackTrampoline (node:internal/async_hooks:130:17)
[03:30:56] 'pack-linux' errored after 43 s
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...

Please don't enable the services by default on install and upgrade. Print instructions instead.

working fine for me. had no problems at all and love it ;-) Endeavour OS

@Rauschebart I get the same, computer slows to a crawl for hours before spitting out the same error. I guess it's a memory problem.

I get this error each time i try to install it. Sometimes it doesn`t even show and the computer just stuck so that i need to do a hard reset.

Compiling translations-converter v0.1.0 (/var/tmp/pamac-build-max/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/android/translations-converter) error: could not compile mullvad-problem-report

Caused by: process didn't exit successfully: rustc --crate-name mullvad_problem_report --edition=2021 mullvad-problem-report/src/main.rs --error-format=json --json=diagnostic-rendered-ansi,artifacts,future-incompat --crate-type bin --emit=dep-info,link -C opt-level=3 -C lto -C metadata=5a3b8046ff277f99 -C extra-filename=-5a3b8046ff277f99 --out-dir /var/tmp/pamac-build-max/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/target/release/deps -L dependency=/var/tmp/pamac-build-max/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/target/release/deps --extern clap=/var/tmp/pamac-build-max/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/target/release/deps/libclap-f3a67ed147efc150.rlib --extern dirs_next=/var/tmp/pamac-build-max/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/target/release/deps/libdirs_next-42bf936977e1d2b0.rlib --extern env_logger=/var/tmp/pamac-build-max/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/target/release/deps/libenv_logger-1fd80702200c2719.rlib --extern err_derive=/var/tmp/pamac-build-max/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/target/release/deps/liberr_derive-a8c87cd2d66a9615.so --extern lazy_static=/var/tmp/pamac-build-max/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/target/release/deps/liblazy_static-5373b19f6f2e1ffd.rlib --extern log=/var/tmp/pamac-build-max/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/target/release/deps/liblog-57046944d8ed9147.rlib --extern mullvad_api=/var/tmp/pamac-build-max/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/target/release/deps/libmullvad_api-3b73b09bcaf81b48.rlib --extern mullvad_paths=/var/tmp/pamac-build-max/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/target/release/deps/libmullvad_paths-176ff11976065896.rlib --extern mullvad_problem_report=/var/tmp/pamac-build-max/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/target/release/deps/libmullvad_problem_report-4309c9d5ba12286a.rlib --extern regex=/var/tmp/pamac-build-max/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/target/release/deps/libregex-d6c4cddcd5234a9c.rlib --extern talpid_platform_metadata=/var/tmp/pamac-build-max/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/target/release/deps/libtalpid_platform_metadata-766cad53fc993078.rlib --extern talpid_types=/var/tmp/pamac-build-max/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/target/release/deps/libtalpid_types-3501fe4f69492af1.rlib --extern tokio=/var/tmp/pamac-build-max/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/target/release/deps/libtokio-d75fbed6bdc5858c.rlib --extern uuid=/var/tmp/pamac-build-max/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/target/release/deps/libuuid-af7babdecb31a38b.rlib -L native=/var/tmp/pamac-build-max/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/target/release/build/md5-asm-4844bd4a680bc1dc/out -L native=/var/tmp/pamac-build-max/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/target/release/build/ring-26d9782c684f82c9/out -L native=/var/tmp/pamac-build-max/mullvad-vpn/src/mullvadvpn-app/target/release/build/sha1-asm-2d16a4a79e8c47b0/out -L native=/usr/lib (signal: 9, SIGKILL: kill) warning: build failed, waiting for other jobs to finish... ==> FEHLER: Ein Fehler geschah in build(). Breche ab...

EDIT:

Didn`t solve the problem above, but mullvad-vpn-bin is working for me.

@w41g87: I ran into the same issue. Running rustup update solved it for me.

When attempting to build for Arch Linux using makepkg -si, received error: failed to select a version for the requirement `classic-mceliece-rust = "^2.0.0"` I have run pacman -Syu but nothing is to be updated.

@gmes78: Thanks!

The mullvad-vpn.sh script included in this package is incorrect. %U is syntax for desktop entry files, it does nothing in Bash, so you're passing a literal %U to mullvad-vpn.

mullvad-vpn.sh should have the following contents instead:

#!/bin/sh
exec "/opt/Mullvad VPN/mullvad-vpn" "$@"

This also applies to the mullvad-vpn-beta package.