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Binary needs to be started from 'appdir' directory... #50
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As background for the desire for a binary package:
Both of the last two are difficult using the AppImage format, and the AppImage also contains many non-needed libraries (newer versions of which Arch already has) |
Hi, The Idea of AppImage is:
As you start replacing libraries by With that being said, what you want to do, can be reached (but I think you'll get further problems along the way.. so the problems only start :) ).. The error message you get happens when Nixnote is searching for application data. It expects to be run as Example (2 executions one failed - then one with manual override):
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I improved the error message. Now it says:
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The updated message is available in 2.0.1-beta5a (but its just a clue/info ). |
Brilliant, thanks for the |
I downloaded today's AppImage and tried with a bunch of possible options to
Note, all of the above directories exist (they were entered by tab-expansion). Perhaps it's the code that checks for the existence of the given directory?
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In the message, is What is |
Thanks for the examples! I worked out it was a syntax thing...
The |
yes. that's true. |
Good news: I've worked around the
hunspell
library naming issue withLD_LIBRARY_PATH=
.Now I'm working around
qt.conf
:The doco says that
qt.conf
must be in the same directory as the executable, meaning I can't put it in/usr/bin
due to conflicts with other packages.So I plan to put
qt.conf
and the executable in/usr/bin/nixnote2
, and have/usr/bin/nixnote2
be a wrapper script to run/usr/bin/nixnote2/nixnote2
.I've updated the
qt.conf
to havePrefix = ../../
due to the extra directory created.The issue I'm hitting is:
Is there a way to disable or workaround this check? Perhaps if an environment variable (eg
$NIXNOTE2_SKIP_APPDIR_CHECK
) is set?The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: