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Installing IVPN on Fedora Silverblue
Fedora Silverblue is unique because it uses an immutable filesystem and an ostree-based package management system. This means that the system files cannot be modified once they are installed, ensuring greater stability and security of the operating system.
IVPN client can be installed on Fedora Silverblue using rpm-ostree
.
Commands to install the IVPN client on Fedora Silverblue:
# Add the IVPN repository
cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
sudo wget https://repo.ivpn.net/stable/fedora/generic/ivpn.repo
# install IVPN client
rpm-ostree install ivpn
# install UI for IVPN client, if required
rpm-ostree install ivpn-ui
# reboot system
systemctl reboot
# enable IVPN service to start automatically
sudo systemctl enable ivpn-service
# start IVPN stervice
sudo systemctl start ivpn-service
To correctly uninstall ‘ivpn’ package on Fedora Silverblue, extra steps should be performed manually:
# logout from ivpn account
ivpn logout
# uninstall IVPN client
rpm-ostree uninstall ivpn
# uninstall IVPN User Interface (if installed)
rpm-ostree uninstall ivpn-ui
# stop and disable IVPN service
sudo systemctl stop ivpn-service
sudo systemctl disable ivpn-service
# manualy remove leftovers
sudo rm -fr /etc/opt/ivpn
sudo rm -fr /var/log/ivpn
# reboot system
systemctl reboot
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