Please Help, Nordvpn's service unit empty on install

I’m very new to arch and the linux environment in general, I’ve been trying for half a day to figure out how to get this service unmasked and enabled!

Nordvpn seems to link to /dev/null after yay installation. I have dependencies, but to be honest even after trying to find this issue on the arch wiki I don’t understand the service link.

Please help me understand what I am supposed to do here.

[ben@bens-desktop-EOS ~]$ systemctl status nordvpn.service
○ nordvpn.service
     Loaded: masked (Reason: Unit nordvpn.service is masked.)
     Active: inactive (dead)
[ben@bens-desktop-EOS ~]$ systemctl unmask nordvpn.service
[ben@bens-desktop-EOS ~]$ systemctl status nordvpn.service
○ nordvpn.service
     Loaded: masked (Reason: Unit nordvpn.service is masked.)
     Active: inactive (dead)
[ben@bens-desktop-EOS ~]$ file /usr/lib/systemd/system/nordvpn.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/nordvpn.service: symbolic link to /dev/null
[ben@bens-desktop-EOS ~]$ sudo rm /lib/systemd/system/nordvpn.service
[sudo] password for ben: 
[ben@bens-desktop-EOS ~]$ sudo systemctl daemon-reload
[ben@bens-desktop-EOS ~]$ systemctl status nordvpn.service
Unit nordvpn.service could not be found.
[ben@bens-desktop-EOS ~]$ 

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NordVPN

In order to use NordVPN. You must enable and start the nordvpnd.service system unit.

The unit is named nordvpnd.service (you are missing the “d”).

systemctl enable --now nordvpnd.service

:person_facepalming:… thank you very much

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