How to install a downloaded appimage?

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Hello, new user here and I already like EasyOS

How can I install an appimage I downloaded? On my previous OS I used https://github.com/ivan-hc/AppMan to install appimages from a large repository.

Edit: I just saw appman mentioned before viewtopic.php?t=13038

[BarryK]

Appimages are self-executable, look at this page:

https://discourse.appimage.org/t/how-to ... ppimage/80

EasyOS has Appi, see the "pkg" desktop icon, which is special as it installs appimages to run as a non-root user.

[silent]

Thanks for the response.

When I click the appimage, UExtract tries to extract it instead of running it. I'd like to add it into the menus.

[bugnaw333]

Make the Appimage executable first before you use it. For me, it is better to place them on my desktop.

[silent]

Thanks for the answer. Maybe I am doing something wrong... I downloaded the appimage for AnyType, I gave it the 3 Exec permissions and placed it in the desktop, but when I click it nothing happens...

[silent]

I tried to run it from the terminal and it turns out it complains about running as root.

[bugnaw333]

Thanks for the answer. Maybe I am doing something wrong... I downloaded the appimage for AnyType, I gave it the 3 Exec permissions and placed it in the desktop, but when I click it nothing happens...

not all Appimages will run on EasyOS.
This is what I am getting on AnyType appimage.

[mikewalsh]

@bugnaw333 / @silent :-

TBH, it's much the same across the entire kennels with AppImages. Often - running for the first time in a terminal, to see what happens; I always do this with any new AppImage - if they're Electron-based, you get the usual 'can't run without sandbox' moan.....and it throws a wobbly, and links you to a reference concerning a long-standing, well-known Chrome 'bug'.

Solution here is to add

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--no-sandbox

.....after the exec command. That often - though not always- -'fixes' it. But some of 'em - like VLC - just will NOT run.....until you start messing around with the setuid 'sticky' bit (and even then it complains like a bitch).

All you CAN do is to 'experiment', though if anybody can, Barry's better at coming up with workarounds and off-the-wall solutions than just about any of the rest of us can, put together...

It's called 'lateral thinking'.....the ability to come at a problem from a completely unanticipated angle. It often works, too!

Mike.

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Solution here is to add

Code: Select all

--no-sandbox

.....after the exec command

This worked for me, thanks!