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AppImage doesn't start #270

Open joelgraff opened 6 years ago

joelgraff commented 6 years ago

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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" SUPPORT_URL="http://support.system76.com" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://github.com/pop-os/pop/issues" PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://system76.com/privacy" VERSION_CODENAME=bionic UBUNTU_CODENAME=bionic

Related Application and/or Package Version - apt policy $PACKAGE NAME etcher.io

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.

TingPing commented 6 years ago

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.

joelgraff commented 6 years ago

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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TingPing commented 6 years ago

I'm guessing that's a problem with the AppImage.

Right, AppImages just shove a few things in a file and pray it works. You can ask them to shove more things in it.

cunctator00 commented 6 years ago

had the same problem with Etcher. I installed the apt from the repo and it's working.

probonopd commented 6 years ago

This is a known issue with the Etcher AppImage and the fix is simple and documented. The Etcher team just needs to do it.

Right, AppImages just shove a few things in a file and pray it works. You can ask them to shove more things in 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: sudo apt install libgconf2-4, then the Etcher AppImage will run. But it needs to be fixed inside the AppImage.

TingPing commented 6 years ago

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.

probonopd commented 6 years ago

They need to add more libraries if it wants to be more portable.

Agree.

benjamin-rood commented 5 years ago

So far I haven't been able to get any Appimages to work with Pop! 18.04

probonopd commented 5 years ago

Which ones did you try? Please provide the full download links if possible so that we can reproduce.

benjamin-rood commented 5 years ago

@probonopd

Just recently I have tried:

The Neo4j Desktop appimage: https://neo4j.com/download/ The GraphiQL appimage: https://electronjs.org/apps/graphiql

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.

probonopd commented 5 years ago

https://github.com/skevy/graphiql-app/releases/download/v0.7.2/graphiql-app-0.7.2-x86_64.AppImage and https://neo4j.com/download-thanks-desktop/?edition=desktop&flavour=linux&release=1.2.2-dev.4&prerelease=true are running fine for me on Pop!_OS 19.04.

benjamin-rood commented 5 years ago

@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)