Installation:

As Surfshark VPN is only available as .deb file, the arch community have worked around it in an AUR package.

Requirements:

To be able to build pacman installable packages from AUR you need the following requirements:

• sudo pacman -S base-devel
• sudo pacman -S git

Building Surfshark-VPN from AUR

Go to surfshark-aur the AUR Package and copy the git clone url.

Now open up a terminal and enter a directory where you want to clone the repository to.

mkdir ~/surfsharkvpn/
cd ~/surfsharkvpn/
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/surfshark-vpn.git
cd surfshark-vpn/

To install the package collecting all the dependencies needed run:

makepkg -si

Connecting to a VPN Server

Now that you installed the package you can run the following command in your terminal:

sudo surfshark-vpn

If this is your first time, you will be prompted to enter your E-Mail and password.

Next you have to choose a country, you can continue the list by pressing Enter.

Type in the number of the country you want to connect to.

Next select the protocol that you want to use, I use TCP.

Done!

You should now be connected to the VPN-Server. You can check your IP by visitting WhoAmI

Diconnecting from the server

To disconnect from the VPN-Server run the command:

sudo surfshark-vpn down