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Outline VPN

Install docker and make sure its running 

sudo apt install docker.io
sudo systemctl start docker
sudo systemctl enable docker
sudo systemctl status docker

Installing outline VPN. Make sure you have maximized your terminal at this point, we will need the output from this command.

sudo su
wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Jigsaw-Code/outline-server/master/src/server_manager/install_scripts/install_server.sh | bash

Paste the output of the command somewhere. Its important.

... After doing all this, I'd say the recommended way to install outline would be to download Outline App Manager and following the 2 line instruction there.

Getting shadowsocks client setup

The final command that worked for me is:

beforepasswordsemi -u
sslocal -s serverip -p port -b localhost -l 1080 -m partbeforepassword -k password

Here is what I needed to accomplish this:

  1. install sslocal command, which on archlinux was accomplished as: 
    sudo pacman -S shadowsocks
  2. now I opened up my gmail account and got the shadowsocks password from the invite key. Here, this screenshot from reddit was a massive help: 1740932039.png url: https://jscomplete.com/playground
  3. following the instruction there, you would get what should go for -k and -m
  4. -k would be the part after semicolon, and -m would be the part preceding it

Now, you have ss-local listening on port 1080

In the SwitchyOmega chrome extension I used, I had to use localhost and not 127.0.0.1

Create a config file and use use systemd

# vector.json because my username is vector. Replace it with your username: $ whoami
# modify vector.json based on the ss-local command mentioned before
sudo cp ~/.config/shadowsocks/config.json /etc/shadowsocks/vector.json
sudo cp /usr/lib/systemd/system/shadowsocks@.service /etc/systemd/system
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl start shadowsocks@vector.service
sudo systemctl enable shadowsocks@vector.service

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