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I guess the title says it. One of the configuration screens says I need certificates (?), keys (?) and PKCS. I have absolutely NO idea what goes in any of these fields. Could anyone help out? Thank you!

Did you get an .ovpn configuration file from your VPN provider ?

I'd recommend reading the existing thread for OpenVPN configuration:
viewtopic.php?f=25&t=12033
viewtopic.php?f=25&t=13237
viewtopic.php?f=25&t=12635

I think they have separate .ovpn files for every server they have (or at least a lot of them? Other than that, I don't really know. They told me they didn't have the information that Mageia is asking for (I sent them screenshots) I'm totally new at this. I use NordVPN. They actually have an RPM I can install. I tried it and it links to another RPM during installation. Dnfdragora finds the second RPM but won't install it because it says it needs libxslt (which I have installed.)

Did you read the other threads I linked to? The last one is specifically about NordVPN. Also, as mentioned in the threads, if you switch to networkmanager, you can directly import .ovpn files.

For the RPM, you'd need to install it via urpmi --allow-nodeps

I did read them. Understanding them is another matter.. However, I did find the file file I was looking for in one of their repos. I installed it via RPM (I totally forgot about urpmi) using rpm -Uvh --nodeps Nordvpn-3.7.2-1.rpm. It seems to work. I start it from the command line. Another question....once NordVPN is started, does everything started AFTER that (like Firefox, for example) go through the VPN?
Thank you!

lloyd wrote:Another question....once NordVPN is started, does everything started AFTER that (like Firefox, for example) go through the VPN?

That depends on your routing. Please post the output of

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/sbin/ip addr
/sbin/ip route

I think it must work like that. After starting the VPN, I see dev tun0 (which was not there before) and there are a whole lot of IP addresses that weren't there before. One more thing....it only seems to work if the firewall is disabled. I am just using the "setup your personal firewall" thing. What settings do I need to enable to make it work properly with the firewall enabled (I also have a firewall enabled in my router)

That is also mentioned in the thread about NordVPN: viewtopic.php?f=25&t=12635