diff --git a/www-client/torbrowser-launcher/files/torbrowser-launcher-distro.patch b/www-client/torbrowser-launcher/files/torbrowser-launcher-distro.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d2efb5d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/www-client/torbrowser-launcher/files/torbrowser-launcher-distro.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- a/setup.py
++++ b/setup.py
+@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ from distutils.core import setup
+ SHARE = 'share'
+ 
+ # detect linux distribution
+-distro = platform.dist()[0]
++distro = 'gentoo'
+ 
+ 
+ def file_list(path):
diff --git a/www-client/torbrowser-launcher/torbrowser-launcher-0.3.2.ebuild b/www-client/torbrowser-launcher/torbrowser-launcher-0.3.2.ebuild
index eccd0ba..00f6af5 100644
--- a/www-client/torbrowser-launcher/torbrowser-launcher-0.3.2.ebuild
+++ b/www-client/torbrowser-launcher/torbrowser-launcher-0.3.2.ebuild
@@ -31,6 +31,10 @@ RDEPEND="
 	dev-python/requests[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 "
 
+PATCHES=(
+	"${FILESDIR}/${PN}-distro.patch"
+)
+
 python_install_all() {
 	distutils-r1_python_install_all
 
diff --git a/www-client/torbrowser-launcher/torbrowser-launcher-9999.ebuild b/www-client/torbrowser-launcher/torbrowser-launcher-9999.ebuild
index eccd0ba..00f6af5 100644
--- a/www-client/torbrowser-launcher/torbrowser-launcher-9999.ebuild
+++ b/www-client/torbrowser-launcher/torbrowser-launcher-9999.ebuild
@@ -31,6 +31,10 @@ RDEPEND="
 	dev-python/requests[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 "
 
+PATCHES=(
+	"${FILESDIR}/${PN}-distro.patch"
+)
+
 python_install_all() {
 	distutils-r1_python_install_all