This tutorial will explain how to install, update and uninstall Mullvad Browser from builds, as for now, the app isn’t available from any distribution package manager, Flatpak or Snap.

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  1. Open a Terminal and download the latest release for your current user:

    cd ~/.local/share && wget https://mullvad.net/en/download/browser/linux64/latest -O mullvad-browser.tar.xz

  2. Extract the content of the downloaded file into a mullvad-browser folder:

    tar -xvf mullvad-browser.tar.xz mullvad-browser

  3. Delete the downloaded tar.xz file as you don’t need it anymore and enter the extracted folder:

    rm mullvad-browser.tar.xz && cd mullvad-browser

  4. Launch Mullvad Browser with the --register-app flag, this should register Mullvad Browser as a desktop app for the current user:

    ./start-mullvad-browser.desktop --register-app

    You can also run ./start-mullvad-browser.desktop --help to see more options.

  5. Run ./start-mullvad-browser.desktop --setDefaultBrowser to set Mullvad Browser as your default browser.

Edit: As of April 22, 2023, Mullvad Browser is also installable through repository packages from Flathub and AUR.

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To update the app, you just need to repeat the steps number 1, 2 and 3. You don’t need to register the app again.

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  1. First, unregister the desktop app:

    cd ~/.local/share/mullvad-browser && ./start-mullvad-browser.desktop --unregister-app

  2. And now delete the mullvad-browser data you left on your computer:

    rm -rf ~/.local/share/mullvad-browser

That’s it! Mullvad Browser uninstalled.