`Unable to identify the distribution that the application is running on.` when trying to package Swivel

[bemxio]

`Unable to identify the distribution that the application is running on.` when trying to package Swivel

[ajwfrost]

Hi

That error suggests that AIR can't work out the package format for this Linux variant. Can you check, what happens if you run

dpkg -l dpkg

(i.e. to list packages that relate to dpkg..)
According to https://man.archlinux.org/man/dpkg.1.en this should be supported?

Looking at the code and where this error is thrown: it's happening during the initialisation of an internal utility, but that utility only needs to know whether it's an RPM or DEB based deployment if it's creating a 'native' installer, and here you're creating a 'bundle' (which is all we currently support on Linux). So actually, it would be possible for us to skip that validation step if it's a bundle build, and fix this.

Temporary workaround though: set an environment variable AIR_DISTRO to a value debian

thanks

[bemxio]

Hello, thank you for your reply!

By default, Arch Linux uses pacman as its package manager, so dpkg and other Debian package-related tools are not there, you would need to install them externally.

And I see, glad I could help to pinpoint that bug, for now I'll tell the AUR package maintainer to include the workaround, thank you once again!