Cannot find shasum

[htfy96]

Describe the bug
Launching a server doesn't work on ArchLinux.

To Reproduce

1. Download latest appimage
2. Add any server
3. Click "Connect"
4. The connection fails with logs saying:

command is running as root but failed:  Error: Command failed: cd "/home/lz"; "/usr/bin/pkexec" --disable-internal-agent /bin/bash -c "echo SUDOPROMPT; trap \"/usr/bin/chattr -R -i /tmp/eGnG05\" EXIT; /usr/bin/chattr -R +i /tmp/eGnG05 && /usr/bin/echo \"[REDACTED]  /tmp/eGnG05/install_linux_service.sh\" | /usr/bin/shasum -a 256 -c && /usr/bin/echo \"[REDACTED]   /tmp/eGnG05/OutlineProxyController\" | /usr/bin/shasum -a 256 -c && /usr/bin/echo \"[REDACTED]   /tmp/eGnG05/outline_proxy_controller.service\" | /usr/bin/shasum -a 256 -c && \"/tmp/eGnG05/install_linux_service.sh\" \"lz\""
/bin/bash: line 1: /usr/bin/shasum: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/echo: write error: Broken pipe

Expected behavior
What behavior did you expect?

The server launches successfully.

Client System (please complete the following information):

• Outline Client Version [e.g. iOS 1.3.1]: latest 1.8.1
• Your Operating System: [e.g. iOS 14.2, Windows 10]: Arch Linux

Additional context
It turns out that ArchLinux installs shasum under:

$ which shasum
/usr/bin/core_perl/shasum

Moreover, it's more canonical to use sha256sum which is included in coreutils instead of relying on shasum, a Perl program for the same requirements.

[fruitbang]

i have the same experience

[jyyi1]

Hi @htfy96 @fruitbang , thanks for reporting the issue. As an workaround, please check following steps:

1. download the contents in "https://github.com/Jigsaw-Code/outline-client/tree/linux-v1.8.1/tools/outline_proxy_controller/dist" and cd into the folder
2. Make sure install_linux_service.sh and OutlineProxyController are executable (chmod +x)
3. Run sudo ./install_linux_service.sh <your-linux-username>, for example, if you linux username is wanyay, please run sudo ./install_linux_service.sh wanyay
4. After the installation script runs successfully, please launch Outline and try to connect

Again, sorry about the inconvenience.

[VasiliyMooduckovich]

In case of ArchLinux here's workaround that helped me - just create a symlink with the right path
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/core_perl/shasum /usr/bin/shasum

ps

dmn this is so silly, i guess this situation is the perfect example why were developed software such as Flatpak, Snap, AppImage and so on, and why there never be as they calls it - "a year of Linux on desktop", that's because of sht like this, i mean how much Linux distros out there? hundreds? And every one of them uses their own path to install packages, so developers can't predicted which distro you will be using to install their software

[gustawdaniel]

I solved by

PATH="${PATH:+${PATH}:}/usr/bin/core_perl"

https://command-not-found.com/shasum

[rodin-ia]

Latest appimg 1.13.1 (476278), same problem, Fedora 40 KDE.
as a temporary solution for fedora sudo dnf install perl-Digest-SHA

[jyyi1]

Hi there, we now have a CLI version of Outline that should work for most of the Linux distros. Please have a try.

[fruitbang]

Hi there, we now have a CLI version of Outline that should work for most of the Linux distros. Please have a try.

I've been using cli version for the last few months and it works perfectum!, thank you.

[sysfu]

Ran into a similar issue on Gentoo. Appimage script could not find echo sed or cp under /usr/bin. I had to create symlinks for all three utils. Client app still choked because it required sytemctl, which Gentoo does not have as it uses openrc init system.

Not sure why paths to basic userland utils are being called from hard coded paths.

[jyyi1]

Ran into a similar issue on Gentoo. Appimage script could not find echo sed or cp under /usr/bin. I had to create symlinks for all three utils. Client app still choked because it required sytemctl, which Gentoo does not have as it uses openrc init system.

Not sure why paths to basic userland utils are being called from hard coded paths.

Actually we were calling well-known commands without absolute paths before, but our security team instructed us to stop doing that to prevent malicious command injection. We have to comply with this security requirement, unfortunately.

[sysfu]

Ran into a similar issue on Gentoo. Appimage script could not find echo sed or cp under /usr/bin. I had to create symlinks for all three utils. Client app still choked because it required sytemctl, which Gentoo does not have as it uses openrc init system.
Not sure why paths to basic userland utils are being called from hard coded paths.

Actually we were calling well-known commands without absolute paths before, but our security team instructed us to stop doing that to prevent malicious command injection. We have to comply with this security requirement, unfortunately.

Ah, interesting and I can see the motivation for that. It's a strike against portability unfortunately. Wondering if a secondary or 'backup' absolute path could be called so that the app isn't broken on distros like Gentoo.

[jyyi1]

Ran into a similar issue on Gentoo. Appimage script could not find echo sed or cp under /usr/bin. I had to create symlinks for all three utils. Client app still choked because it required sytemctl, which Gentoo does not have as it uses openrc init system.
Not sure why paths to basic userland utils are being called from hard coded paths.

Actually we were calling well-known commands without absolute paths before, but our security team instructed us to stop doing that to prevent malicious command injection. We have to comply with this security requirement, unfortunately.

Ah, interesting and I can see the motivation for that. It's a strike against portability unfortunately. Wondering if a secondary or 'backup' absolute path could be called so that the app isn't broken on distros like Gentoo.

Ah yeah, that's doable. Even better, we are planning to get rid of the "initialization process" in the future for Outline Client Linux. The work is already in progress now.