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New PIA needs systemd

I just tried update to the latest PIA (Private Internet Access) and it gave me the following:

Code:

chris@d7:/tmp$  sh /storage/PIA/pia-linux-1.0.2-02363.run

Verifying archive integrity...  100%  MD5 checksums are OK. All good.

Uncompressing Private Internet Access  100%  



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Private Internet Access Installer

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A systemd based OS is required to run this program

Has anyone worked around this yet?

chris

Until you figure this out, you could just download their configuration files from here: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/pages/download#
then use openvpn like so:
openvpn --config nameofconfigfile. It will ask for your userid and password which presumably you got from PIA.

You might want to contact PIA and let them know their installer is giving this error message.

If you run the script with the option --keep, it won't delete the extracted directory. Then you can go in and manually edit the install.sh file to remove the check for systemctl (it calls hash against it, so you can't simply create a systemctl file). Or you can use the install.sh script as a basis to create a SlackBuild. A basic SlackBuild like the below should work. Feel free to take it and run with it.

I haven't tested this other than to make sure it makes a Slackware package. I don't know if permissions will need to be tweaked or if you'll need to create an rc.pia startup file.

Code:

#!/bin/bash



PRGNAM=pia

VERSION=${VERSION:-1.0.2_02363}

SRCVER=$(echo $VERSION | tr _ - )

BUILD=${BUILD:-1}

TAG=${TAG:-_bass}



if [ -z "$ARCH" ]; then

  case "$( uname -m )" in

    i?86) echo "UNSUPPORTED ARCH" && exit 1 ;;

    arm*) echo "UNSUPPORTED ARCH" && exit 1 ;;

      *) ARCH=$( uname -m ) ;;

  esac

fi



CWD=$(pwd)

TMP=${TMP:-/tmp/SBo}

PKG=$TMP/package-$PRGNAM

OUTPUT=${OUTPUT:-/tmp}



rm -rf $PKG

mkdir -p $TMP $PKG $OUTPUT

cd $TMP

rm -rf $PRGNAM ${PRGNAM}-${SRCVER}

sh $CWD/$PRGNAM-linux-$SRCVER.run --keep 2>/dev/null

cd $PRGNAM-linux-$SRCVER



mkdir -p $PKG/opt/piavpn

cp -rf piafiles/* $PKG/opt/piavpn

cp installfiles/*.sh $PKG/opt/piavpn/bin

chmod +x $PKG/opt/piavpn/bin/{pia-uninstall,run-in-terminal}.sh



mkdir -p $PKG/usr/share/{pixmaps,applications}

cp installfiles/pia.png $PKG/usr/share/pixmaps/pia.png

cp installfiles/piavpn.desktop $PKG/usr/share/applications/piavpn.desktop



cd $PKG

/sbin/makepkg -l y -c n $OUTPUT/$PRGNAM-$VERSION-$ARCH-$BUILD$TAG.${PKGTYPE:-tgz}

I've always just used openvpn to connect to pia with the following openvpn.conf:

Code:

jbhansen@craven-moorhead:~$ sudo cat /etc/openvpn/openvpn.conf 

client

dev tun

proto udp

remote ca-vancouver.privateinternetaccess.com 1198

resolv-retry infinite

nobind

persist-key

persist-tun

cipher aes-128-cbc

auth sha1

tls-client

remote-cert-tls server

auth-user-pass /etc/openvpn/login.txt

auth-nocache

comp-lzo

verb 1

reneg-sec 0

crl-verify /etc/openvpn/crl.rsa.2048.pem

ca /etc/openvpn/ca.rsa.2048.crt

disable-occ

script-security 2

route-noexec



up /etc/openvpn/iptables.sh

down /etc/openvpn/update-resolv-conf

My login credentials are in /etc/openvpn/login.txt, but I don't remember where I got the .pem and .crt certificates, but I know you can extract them from openvpn zip files that contain ovpn files.

Quote:

Originally Posted by bassmadrigal (Post 5962922)

Thanks, that did most of what was needed. The extra bit was to set up a daemon to run at system startup. I set that up with a script in /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/ (to start the daemon when network becomes available). In systems not using NetworkManager, that could also be done in rc.local.

chris

PIA has been running nicely since February (when this thread started). It's gui, which I rarely need to open, recently mentioned that an update (version 1.5.1) was available. This version requires no editing of the install.sh file. Instead, it takes options:

Code:

chris@d7:/tmp/pia-linux-1.5.1-03605$ ./install.sh --help



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Private Internet Access Installer

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Usage: pia-linux-<version>.run -- <install-options>

Install options:

  --systemd to setup a systemd service on boot

  --sysvinit to setup a sysvinit service on boot

  --skip-service to skip setting up a service

Since I start my PIA service from a script in /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/, I can just run the installer with the --skip-service option. For those who prefer to start from it from /etc/rc.d/, a piavpn.sysvinit.service file is provided (it's a regular shell script, despite the name), so you could then run the installer with the --sysvinit option instead.

chris