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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

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.

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.

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

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...

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

silent wrote: Fri Jan 03, 2025 4:55 pm

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.

@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

--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.

Solution here is to add

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--no-sandbox

.....after the exec command

This worked for me, thanks!