SUSE E:Unable to determine a suitable packaging system type
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Closed without resolution due to inactivity. Snapcraft fails on SUSE by attempting to initialize apt, which is unsupported on RPM-based distributions. The issue was abandoned.
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On OpenSUSE Leap I installed snapd from zyga's snappy repo.
snap version returns:-
snap 2.23.1-3.1
snapd 2.23.1-3.1
series 16
opensuse 42.3
kernel 4.4.49-1-default
I installed snapcraft from edge and get this when i snapcraft init.
alan@linux-sss1:~/foo> snapcraft init
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/snap/snapcraft/3/bin/snapcraft", line 28, in <module>
import snapcraft.main
File "/snap/snapcraft/3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/snapcraft/__init__.py", line 359, in <module>
from snapcraft._baseplugin import BasePlugin # noqa
File "/snap/snapcraft/3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/snapcraft/_baseplugin.py", line 21, in <module>
from snapcraft.internal import common
File "/snap/snapcraft/3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/snapcraft/internal/__init__.py", line 20, in <module>
from snapcraft.internal.project_loader import load_config # noqa
File "/snap/snapcraft/3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/snapcraft/internal/project_loader.py", line 29, in <module>
from snapcraft.internal import (
File "/snap/snapcraft/3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/snapcraft/internal/parts.py", line 29, in <module>
from snapcraft.internal import (
File "/snap/snapcraft/3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/snapcraft/internal/pluginhandler/__init__.py", line 40, in <module>
from snapcraft.internal import (
File "/snap/snapcraft/3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/snapcraft/internal/repo.py", line 34, in <module>
import apt
File "/snap/snapcraft/3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/apt/__init__.py", line 35, in <module>
apt_pkg.init_system()
SystemError: E:Unable to determine a suitable packaging system type
Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Closed without resolution due to inactivity. Snapcraft fails on SUSE by attempting to initialize apt, which is unsupported on RPM-based distributions. The issue was abandoned. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Closed as invalid. Snapcraft depends on apt, triggering a packaging error on OpenSUSE Leap. The report was rejected due to running the tool on an unsupported distribution. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 | — | — | Closed without comments. Snapcraft crashed on OpenSUSE Leap due to an unsupported apt import, indicating missing SUSE packaging support. No resolution or fix documented. |
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