buildInstallLocallyApt could not determine release about pdf2htmlex

[stephengaito]

@ZelChief ,
I am sorry to have taken a couple of days to get back to you.... too many things to juggle.

SO... the bash script is trying to determine the "Linux Standard Base" "codename" and "id" of you Linux distribution. In my case these are "focal" and "Ubuntu".

I will attempt to find a more robust way of determining these values.... however until then you could replace the following lines in the buildScripts/versionEnvs file FROM:

if test -r /etc/lsb-release ; then
  cat /etc/lsb-release
  # source /etc/lsb-release
  . /etc/lsb-release
  export BUILD_DIST=$DISTRIB_CODENAME
  export BUILD_OS=$DISTRIB_ID
elif test -r /etc/alpine-release ; then
  cat /etc/alpine-release
  export BUILD_OS=alpine
  export BUILD_DIST=$(cat /etc/alpine-release)
else
  echo "FAILURE: could not determine release"
  exit -1
fi

TO:

export BUILD_DIST=<<DISTRIB_CODENAME>>
export BUILD_OS=<<DISTRIB_ID>>

1. You MUST replace <<DISTRIB_CODENAME>> with the "name" of your linux release or any alphaNumeric identifier of your choice.

2. You MUST replace <<DISTRIB_ID>> with the "name" of your linux distribution or any alphaNumeric identifier of your choice.

3. You MUST not have any spaces in these values since they are used to create file names... and subsequent scripts will get very confused.

I hope that this helps.