There are two ways to set up a VPN connection with NordVPN on Ubuntu. The first one is to add NordVPN’s package repository to the apt sources and then install the nordvpn client via a simple sudo apt install nordvpn. The second one is to install OpenVPN and configure it to use the servers of NordVPN.
This how-to was written for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver).