Cannot install Phoenix code on Debian Trixie. What should I do?

[deananorth]

Hi. I'm a little bit stumped. I'm on Debian 13.0 Trixie and the install script seems to error out with the following error message.

Note, selecting 'libgtk-3-0t64' instead of 'libgtk-3-0'
Error: Unable to locate package libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37
Error: Couldn't find any package by glob 'libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37'
/tmp/tmp.hmEppRJR2u/phoenix-code/phoenix-code: error while loading shared libraries: libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so.37: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Verification failed even after installing dependencies. Please check the application requirements or contact support.
Unable to successfully verify application launch. Exiting installation.

The command used was

wget -qO- https://updates.phcode.io/linux/installer.sh | bash

I've noticed that this was a problem with Ubuntu users but it has since been fixed for them. Also, searching on this forum they are still investigating the issue as of May 2025. This only seems to apply to Ubuntu though and Debian Trixie came out earlier this month, so I don't know what to do at this point.

Any advice would be appreciated.

[charlypa]

@deananorth

Thanks for reporting the bug. will try to roll out the fix as early as possible

[charlypa]

added support for debian 13 can you run installer again see if it works
phcode-dev/phoenix-desktop#638