diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4d4114e..c41694e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -188,6 +188,8 @@ To build a release bundle for your own platform:
 bun run tauri build
 ```
 
+On Linux, use `bun run build:linux` instead. It is the same command with `NO_STRIP=1` set, which the AppImage bundler needs on a rolling-release distribution. See [Platform notes](#platform-notes).
+
 ## Distribution
 
 Workflows live in `.gitea/workflows` and run on Gitea Actions.
@@ -241,12 +243,14 @@ Linux builds also need the WebKit and GTK development packages:
 sudo apt-get install libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev libgtk-3-dev librsvg2-dev patchelf
 ```
 
-On rolling-release distributions such as Arch, the AppImage step fails while stripping system libraries, because the `strip` bundled inside `linuxdeploy` predates the `.relr.dyn` relocation section that a current toolchain emits. Skip stripping:
+On rolling-release distributions such as Arch, the AppImage step fails with `failed to run linuxdeploy`. The `strip` bundled inside `linuxdeploy` predates the `.relr.dyn` relocation section that a current toolchain emits, so it rejects every system library it is asked to strip. Setting `NO_STRIP=1` skips that pass, which is what `build:linux` does:
 
 ```bash
-NO_STRIP=1 bun run tauri build
+bun run build:linux
 ```
 
+The `.deb` and `.rpm` targets are unaffected, so a build that produces those two and then fails is almost always this.
+
 ## License
 
 Apache License 2.0. See [LICENSE](LICENSE).
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 05ddfdd..a5de52b 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@
     "preview": "vite preview",
     "check": "svelte-kit sync && svelte-check --tsconfig ./tsconfig.json",
     "check:watch": "svelte-kit sync && svelte-check --tsconfig ./tsconfig.json --watch",
-    "tauri": "tauri"
+    "tauri": "tauri",
+    "build:linux": "NO_STRIP=1 tauri build"
   },
   "license": "Apache-2.0",
   "dependencies": {