`Please install ip.` WTF?[BUG]

[anoduck]

Describe the bug Installed with sudo without a hitch, most of the requirements were already installed. Went to initialize the service and received the following error message.

'ip' not found.
Please install ip.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Begin with a fresh install of OpenBSD Current/Snapshot with Python installed.
2. Install the necessary dependencies: doas pkg_add -U openvpn dialog
3. Assuming you are not root. Enter the following command at the prompt. doas pip3 install -U protonvpn-cli If you are logged in as root, omit the 'doas'.
4. Run doas protonvpn init
5. See error

Expected behavior From the required dependencies, no problem was expected to occur. So the rather obscure error message is quite surprising.

Error Messages/Program Output/Log Messages (~/.pvpn-cli/pvpn-cli.log)

'ip' not found. 
Please install ip.

pvpn-cli-log

2024-03-15 04:23:00,027 — protonvpn-cli — DEBUG — cli:89 — ###########################
2024-03-15 04:23:00,028 — protonvpn-cli — DEBUG — cli:90 — ### NEW PROCESS STARTED ###
2024-03-15 04:23:00,028 — protonvpn-cli — DEBUG — cli:91 — ###########################
2024-03-15 04:23:00,028 — protonvpn-cli — DEBUG — cli:92 — ['/usr/local/bin/protonvpn', 'init']
2024-03-15 04:23:00,028 — protonvpn-cli — DEBUG — cli:93 — USER: User
2024-03-15 04:23:00,029 — protonvpn-cli — DEBUG — cli:94 — CONFIG_DIR: /home/User/.pvpn-cli
2024-03-15 04:23:00,034 — protonvpn-cli — DEBUG — cli:97 — Arguments
{'--cc': None, '--fastest': False, '--help': False, '--p2p': False, '--random': False, '--sc': False, '--tor': False, '--version': False, '-p': None, '<servername>': None, 'c': False, 'configure': False, 'connect': False, 'd': False, 'disconnect': False, 'examples': False, 'init': True, 'r': False, 'reconnect': False, 'refresh': False, 's': False, 'status': False}
2024-03-15 04:23:00,045 — protonvpn-cli — DEBUG — check_root:347 — ip not found

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: OpenBSD Current
• Python Version: 3.11.8
• ProtonVPN-CLI Version: 2.2.11

Additional context Add any other context about the problem here.

[anoduck]

Could this by any chance be referring to iptables? Just somehow the "tables" got cutoff?

[ErichRitz]

No, the program is in fact called "ip".

# which ip
/usr/sbin/ip
# file /usr/sbin/ip
/usr/sbin/ip: symbolic link to ../../sbin/ip

https://ipset.netfilter.org/ipset.man.html

[anoduck]

Then the error message should read Please install iproute2 to avoid the misunderstanding.

I do not know if every Linux distribution has adopted the use of iproute2 as their recommended means to configure network interfaces. There are so many different Linux distributions, it is quite possible no one knows.

Regardless, it rules out any possibility of being compatible with BSD.