The `_` environment variable is a variable that is set by bash and some other shells to point to the executable they use when executing a command. That is, when executing `foo` from the command line, the shell sets `_` to `/usr/bin/foo` (assuming that's where foo is). However, nothing else does the same, so when e.g. a python program uses `subprocess.Popen` to run another program, it doesn't set `_`. Worse, if that python program itself was invoked from a shell, `_` would be set to e.g. `/usr/bin/python3`. So when nsis is invoked from a program that is not a shell, but the process ancestry has a process that was a shell, `_` may be set to the first intermediary program rather than nsis, which defeats nsis's assumption that `_` would contain the nsis path. Ironically, nsis also has more reliable fallbacks (using e.g. /proc/self/exe), but somehow prefers `_`. We remove the reliance of `_` entirely, for simplicity's sake. diff -ruN nsis-3.07-src.orig/Source/util.cpp nsis-3.07-src/Source/util.cpp --- nsis-3.07-src.orig/Source/util.cpp 2021-09-02 09:25:48.489016918 +0900 +++ nsis-3.07-src/Source/util.cpp 2021-09-02 09:26:21.158814484 +0900 @@ -810,10 +810,7 @@ assert(rc == 0); return tstring(CtoTString(temp_buf)); #else /* Linux/BSD/POSIX/etc */ - const TCHAR *envpath = _tgetenv(_T("_")); - if (envpath) - return get_full_path(envpath); - else { + { char *path = NULL, *pathtmp; size_t len = 100; int nchars;