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zypak-wrapper error when building for Flatpak through electron-forge

I'm trying to migrate my app from electron-builder to electron-forge, because the latter supports Flatpak making. The sample app works without a hitch, but my real repository seems to have some problems.

I can package the app just fine, and the makelog doesn't throw any errors, but when running the app itself, this error appears:

/app/bin/zypak-wrapper: line 24: exec: my-program: not found

As far as I can see, there aren't any conflicting node modules, and the package.json itself doesn't really seem to change anything. I assume the problem is in my main.js, but I first need to understand what the error entails.

Solution

  • The problem was with zypak, because it looked for the name specified in package.json, not taking into account the possibility of a productName.

    Removing the productName fixed the problem, though I'm not sure how to replicate that behaviour now.