Explictly check host & show better error message (Install Script)

[jmacmahon]

Problem

The README says it "Supports ... any *Unix-based Distro", but when I try to run the install script on FreeBSD I get:

% curl -fsSL "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pkgforge/soar/main/install.sh" | sh
Error: Unsupported architecture: amd64

I think the README should be updated to say "any Linux-based Distro", but as an aside this is a confusing error message and maybe the error should say something like "Unsupported platform: FreeBSD".

Steps to reproduce

• Use FreeBSD
• Run the install script

Expected behavior

I didn't really expect it to work, having browsed through some of the documentation, but I suppose you could say that the expected behaviour from the README would be that it installs Soar successfully on FreeBSD.

Soar version (soar -V)

latest

Operating system (if issue is related to OS)

FreeBSD

Installation

No response

[Azathothas]

The README says it "Supports ... any *Unix-based Distro"

Yes it does. Both the package manager (Soar) & package builder (sbuilder) support these hosts:

but when I try to run the install script on FreeBSD I get

It's because currently our official package repositories only support Linux (aarch64 & x86_64) because of a lack of CI Infrastructure.
Thus, the current install script is written with only Linux in mind.
So if you want to use soar & related tooling on FreeBSD, you would have to self-host your own repo & configure soar to use it.

error should say something like "Unsupported platform: FreeBSD"

Yes, it should. I will update the script to show better error message, thank you!