diff --git a/app-misc/via/via-3.0.0.ebuild b/app-misc/via/via-3.0.0.ebuild
index c43f066407..cc02d29582 100644
--- a/app-misc/via/via-3.0.0.ebuild
+++ b/app-misc/via/via-3.0.0.ebuild
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ src_install() {
 	# The AppImage is self-contained and is installed as a binary directly, but
 	# it also contains a `.desktop` file and app icons that we want; we can
 	# extract those from its contents.
-	"${ED}/usr/bin/via" --appimage-extract
+	"${ED}/usr/bin/via" --appimage-extract || die
 
 	local size
 	for size in 16 24 32 48 64 96 128 256 512 1024; do