AppImage/DEB install issues

[edwaleni]

• Etcher version: Latest
• Operating system and architecture: Zorin 16 (Ubuntu-Focal)
• Image flashed: None
• Do you see any meaningful error information in the DevTools?
• AppImage will not run. (Installs) AppImage manager says there is a syntax error in the Etcher script.
• Tried to install via PPA and fails with the following error.

• $ curl -1sLf \

    'https://dl.cloudsmith.io/public/balena/etcher/setup.deb.sh' \
    | sudo -E bash

  [sudo] password for **
  Executing the setup script for the 'balena/etcher' repository ...

  OK: Checking for required executable 'curl' ... OK: Checking for required executable 'apt-get' ... OK: Detecting your OS distribution and release using system methods ... ^^^^: ... Detected/provided for your OS/distribution, version and architecture:

  : : ... distro=zorin version=16 codename=focal arch=x86_64 : NOPE: Checking for apt dependency 'apt-transport-https' ... OK: Updating apt repository metadata cache ... OK: Attempting to install 'apt-transport-https' ... OK: Checking for apt dependency 'ca-certificates' ... OK: Checking for apt dependency 'gnupg' ... OK: Importing 'balena/etcher' repository GPG key into apt ... NOPE: Checking if upstream install config is OK ... ^^^^: ... Failed to fetch configuration for your OS distribution release/version. : : It looks like we don't currently support your distribution release and : version. This is something that we can fix by adding it to our list of : supported versions (see contact us below), or you can manually override : the values below to an equivalent distribution that we do support: : : ... distro=zorin version=16 codename=focal arch=x86_64 : : You can force this script to use a particular value by specifying distro, : version, or codename via environment variable. E.g., to specify a distro : such as Ubuntu/Xenial (16.04), use the following: : :

  distro=ubuntu version=16.04 codename=xenial sudo -E bash

  !!!!: Oh no, your setup failed! :-( ... But we might be able to help. :-) !!!!: !!!!: You can contact balena for further assistance. !!!!: !!!!: URL: https://github.com/balena-io/etcher !!!!: !!!!: Last 20 log lines from .csm_setup_8ttpA5G2Q (might not be errors, nor even relevant): !!!!: !!!!: > Warning: apt-key output should not be parsed (stdout is not a terminal) !!!!: > OK

[wbxqm]

Perhaps 'apt-transport-https' is missing. The setup-instructions of the repoitory mention:

apt-get install -y debian-keyring  # debian only
apt-get install -y debian-archive-keyring  # debian only
apt-get install -y apt-transport-https

[lurch]

See also #3631