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SpongeBOB

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From: Brussels

Registered: 2022-02-07

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Can we run .Appimage out of the box ?

Hi everyone,

Just be curiosity (because I'm not sure that I will ever use Appimage on the long run, see -> https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=36176#p36176)

Can we launch an x.Appimage out of the box with Devuan ? because I just dw https://apprepo.de/appimage/atom

Placed it to /home/me/Desktop/ tried to run it but nothing happen (it has has 0777 )

Any ideas ?

Thanks

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fsmithred

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Registered: 2016-11-25

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Re: Can we run .Appimage out of the box ?

Yes, appimages should work in devuan. I just tested the musescore I downloaded in 2017 for jessie, and it still runs on beowulf. I did not have to install anything special.

0755 should be sufficient for the permissions.

Try running it from a terminal to see if you get any useful messages. That might be helpful for the developer of this alpha software.

SpongeBOB

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From: Brussels

Registered: 2022-02-07

Posts: 114  

Re: Can we run .Appimage out of the box ?

Thank you @fsmithred,

here what I got from the terminal ( ~/Desktop )

. Atom.AppImage
bash: .: Atom.AppImage: cannot execute binary file

I'm Running Duvean Chimaera 4.0

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Does someone have the link of a working .Appimage to se if it run on my system and therefore see if it's was Atom.Appimage that was buggy or my system

Thanks

Last edited by SpongeBOB (2022-06-08 06:48:24)

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fsmithred

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Re: Can we run .Appimage out of the box ?

If you're in the same directory as the appimage, the correct command to start it would be

./Atom.AppImage

. Atom.AppImage is the same as source Atom.AppImage which won't work on binary files.

See 'help source' in a bash terminal for more info.

sgage

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Registered: 2016-12-01

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Re: Can we run .Appimage out of the box ?

Thank you @fsmithred,

here what I got from the terminal ( ~/Desktop )

. Atom.AppImage
bash: .: Atom.AppImage: cannot execute binary file

I'm Running Duvean Chimaera 4.0

--

Does someone have the link of a working .Appimage to se if it run on my system and therefore see if it's was Atom.Appimage that was buggy or my system

Thanks

I occasionally run the balenaEtcher appimage without issue (it is a USB writer). There's a download button on their home page:

https://www.balena.io/etcher/

It downloads a zip file containing the appimage.

Last edited by sgage (2022-06-08 11:02:15)

Ogis1975

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Registered: 2017-04-21

Posts: 307  

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Re: Can we run .Appimage out of the box ?

I have already downloaded android-file-transfer, music player Museeks, picture viewer Nomacs and file manager DoubleCMD.  These programs work great.

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charliebrownau

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From: Australia

Registered: 2022-04-14

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Re: Can we run .Appimage out of the box ?

Gday
99% of appimages work with Dev1 from my experience

SMplayer appimage does NOT work thou

Appimages that do work
- LibreWolf - browser
- Delta chat - messager
- leafpad - text editor
- Libre office - Office Suite
- Ungoogled chromium - browser
- Shortcut - video editor