AppImage doesn't start #270
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What does it print when running from the terminal? AppImages in no way are guarenteed to work and often depend upon various host libs/data so are easily broken. |
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Right. It couldn't find the libgconf-2 shared library. I installed it
using apt and it launched normally.
I'm guessing that's a problem with the AppImage.
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What does it print when running from the terminal? AppImages in no way are
guarenteed to work and often depend upon various host libs/data so are
easily broken.
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Right, AppImages just shove a few things in a file and pray it works. You can ask them to shove more things in it. |
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had the same problem with Etcher. I installed the apt from the repo and it's working. |
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This is a known issue with the Etcher AppImage and the fix is simple and documented. The Etcher team just needs to do it.
@TingPing please don't spread FUD. This has nothing to do with AppImage, because AppImage is just a self-mounting filesystem image and simply executes whatever the application author has decided to put in there. The same issue would exist if they would ship the binaries and libraries inside a zip or tar.gz. The real issue here is that some distributions suddenly stopped shipping libgconf by default, which they had always shipped over many years. So this is really a Linux Desktop Platform issue - we need some stable baseline we can depend on "just being there" on every system, without distributions suddenly deciding to drop without prior long-term depreciation notice. Workaround: |
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It wasn't FUD your linked issue said exactly what I said. They need to add more libraries if it wants to be more portable. |
Agree. |
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So far I haven't been able to get any Appimages to work with Pop! 18.04 |
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Which ones did you try? Please provide the full download links if possible so that we can reproduce. |
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Just recently I have tried: The Neo4j Desktop appimage: https://neo4j.com/download/ But, seriously, every Appimage I have tried on Pop! 18.04 hasn't worked, or, it has only worked once, then the next time I open it, it fails. I understand that this isn't a Pop! problem, I just wish people had stuck with Deb files because they work. |
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@probonopd Okay... I will try 19.04 in a VM and if I get the same result I will upgrade (because I really need those tools) |
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Distribution - (run
cat /etc/os-release)NAME="Pop!_OS"
VERSION="18.04 LTS"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Pop!_OS 18.04 LTS"
VERSION_ID="18.04"
HOME_URL="https://system76.com/pop"
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VERSION_CODENAME=bionic
UBUNTU_CODENAME=bionic
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Issue/Bug Description
Downloaded the AppImage for Etcher. Extracted it and ran it, with no effect.
Steps to reproduce (if you know)
Download the AppImage for Linux-64bit from etcher.io
Extract
Double-click / press return to run from file manager
Expected behavior
Other Notes
EDIT:
It may be an issue with the AppImage - I don't have another distro to test against. However, a few weeks ago I ran the etcher 64-bit AppImage successfully on a Mint system.
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