Just a note - could not run AppImage on Alma 8.8 - but here's how

[kuiperzone]

Just a note. Couldn't run an AppImage on Alma 8.8....

dlopen(): error loading libfuse.so.2

AppImages require FUSE to run.
You might still be able to extract the contents of this AppImage
if you run it with the --appimage-extract option.
See https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/wiki/FUSE
for more information

Unfortunately, the destructions in link would not work.

This is what I did instead, which worked:

[sudo] dnf install fuse-libs

[kuiperzone]

PS. I recall AppImages running out of the box on Alma 9, but I could be mistaken.

[kuiperzone]

I was working with a remote machine. Just discovered it was an LXC installation. Wondering if missing lib had something to do with that.

[TheAssassin]

We have an elaborate documentation on this topic in https://docs.appimage.org/user-guide/troubleshooting/fuse.html, which I keep linking from that unnecessary wiki page but which keeps getting removed in favor of the incomplete instructions there. In my opinion, it is totally unnecessary to have outdated or incomplete information there, and it would make no sense to duplicate any of it.

People would manage to click a link to our official (!) docs. But then again, @probonopd apparently disagrees.

I'm tired of adding that link in the wiki. Feel free to replace its contents, maybe your change won't get reverted.

[kuiperzone]

Thanks for the reply.

I made a note here partly for me because I will end up having to solve this again in the future, and for others. Feel free to convert it to a discussion or add a suitable label.

I don't know anything of the politics of the wiki I'm afraid, but there is no mention of Alma, and the following did not work for me:

yum --enablerepo=epel install fuse-sshfs

[TheAssassin]

Would you like to send a PR to the docs repo? https://github.com/AppImage/docs.appimage.org

[kuiperzone]

Sure I can, but a little later.

BTW - this is the first time I've ever had an AppImage fail to run out of the box and, ultimately, the solution was simple.

Do you guys have an AppImage logo?

If not, I can perhaps create one for you?

We might be plugging AppImage in the future and we could add the logo to "our technology stack" on this page: https://rigelblue.co.uk/

[TheAssassin]

this is the first time I've ever had an AppImage fail to run out of the box

This is way more common than you think. Ubuntu and Debian stopped shipping libfuse2 years ago and that caused a lot of issues.

For the logo, see https://appimage.org/. I think it's good as-is, but thanks for your offer. I'd recommend you to check on the licensing, but I'm sure we wouldn't mind having it on your page. There are a lot of "download AppImage" buttons, too. We clearly wouldn't sue you for such a logo inclusion anyway.

[kuiperzone]

For the logo, see https://appimage.org/.

Looks good!

This is way more common than you think. Ubuntu and Debian stopped shipping libfuse2 years ago and that caused a lot of issues.

Not had an issue with Debian 12, but will need to checkout any issues, esp with Ubuntu server.