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TheSaint

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[Solved] I can't get appimagetool-x86_64.AppImage working

Hello forum,
I'm getting rusty to solve the problems. sorry about that.

I'm trying to get a little application running, which is supplied as appimage. So I went to install : appimagetool-bin from AUR.
Then even such installation reports

bash: ./appimagetool-x86_64.AppImage: No such file or directory

The same during the package installation.
I moved the appimages to $HOME/AppImages

ls -l
total 8932
-rwxr-xr-x 1 user users 8811712 Sep 29 22:23 appimagetool-x86_64.AppImage
-rwxr-xr-x 1 user users  328896 Feb  6 13:39 pk2cmd-x86_64.AppImage

But any command

./appimagetool-x86_64.AppImage --appimage-help
bash: ./appimagetool-x86_64.AppImage: No such file or directory

I can't get further.

Modules for fuse an squashfs are available

$ lsmod |grep fuse
fuse                  176128  3
$ lsmod |grep squashfs
squashfs               86016  0

Last edited by TheSaint (2023-02-06 14:14:08)

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Re: [Solved] I can't get appimagetool-x86_64.AppImage working

Mod note: moving to AUR Issues

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yochananmarqos

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Re: [Solved] I can't get appimagetool-x86_64.AppImage working

Did  you make it executable? See https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit … tool-usage

d.ALT

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Re: [Solved] I can't get appimagetool-x86_64.AppImage working

Did  you make it executable? See https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit … tool-usage

ls -l
total 8932
-rwxr-xr-x 1 user users 8811712 Sep 29 22:23 appimagetool-x86_64.AppImage
-rwxr-xr-x 1 user users  328896 Feb  6 13:39 pk2cmd-x86_64.AppImage

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Lone_Wolf

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Re: [Solved] I can't get appimagetool-x86_64.AppImage working

EDIT :

What is the output of

$ appimagetool -h

One remark

- bsdtar can extract appimages  (which helps a lot with creating packages for software distributed as appimage)

Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2023-02-06 11:49:05)

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TheSaint

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Re: [Solved] I can't get appimagetool-x86_64.AppImage working

@Lone_Wolf

$ ./appimagetool-x86_64.AppImage --appimage-help
AppImage options:

  --appimage-extract [<pattern>]  Extract content from embedded filesystem image
                                  If pattern is passed, only extract matching files
  --appimage-help                 Print this help
  --appimage-mount                Mount embedded filesystem image and print
                                  mount point and wait for kill with Ctrl-C
  --appimage-offset               Print byte offset to start of embedded
                                  filesystem image
  --appimage-portable-home        Create a portable home folder to use as $HOME
  --appimage-portable-config      Create a portable config folder to use as
                                  $XDG_CONFIG_HOME
  --appimage-signature            Print digital signature embedded in AppImage
  --appimage-updateinfo[rmation]  Print update info embedded in AppImage
  --appimage-version              Print version of AppImageKit

Portable home:

  If you would like the application contained inside this AppImage to store its
  data alongside this AppImage rather than in your home directory, then you can
  place a directory named

  /home/user/AppImages/appimagetool-x86_64.AppImage.home

I can't figure why it's working. The only operation was a new system upgrade and restart the machine.
Now the problem is over.

$ uname -r
6.1.9-arch1-2

For other users I may provide more details of my system. Strange behavior, anyway.

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