Appimage not working on Ubuntu Budgie 24.04.2

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Looked everywhere and can’t find a solution to appimage.

Attempted this: Budgie

To install sudo apt install libfuse2t64

Still not working after restart. Yes I did check make it executable.

Any ideas?

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What is the appimage you are having issues with?

If you attempt to run the appimage from a terminal what errors do you see?

For example - electron appimages need to remove all security restraints to run

./application.appimage --no-sandbox
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Hi,
Every app image, Tutanota, Clickup and Mendeley

How do run app image in terminal?

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Hi @thinkeranddoer,

Have you thought about making AppImages executable?

Right-click > Properties > Allow file execution as a program

If not, use an AppImages manager like Gear Lever, which will take care of this as well as integrating the application into the menu.

Enter this line in the termina! (Ctrl Alt t):

flatpak install flathub it.mijorus.gearlever`Preformatted text`
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Hi, yes they are executable.

Will try Gear Lever.

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Gear Lever Worked. Thank you @jlb .

Pity that it didn’t work making it executable though.

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Thanks, @thinkeranddoer, but oddly enough: Gear Lever starts by making AppImages executable, like what you can do manually from “Properties”. :thinking:

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In fact, Gear Lever automatically also did what @fossfreedom advised you to do.

I took the time to check, and it turns out that all three of your applications had the same problem that I discovered when I upgraded to 24.04.

But the terminal gives the explanation:

~/Desjtop$ ./mendel*
[9692:0414/193101.855313:FATAL:setuid_sandbox_host.cc(158)] The SUID sandbox helper binary was found, but is not configured correctly. Rather than run without sandboxing I'm aborting now. You need to make sure that /tmp/.mount_mendelh3pE9w/chrome-sandbox is owned by root and has mode 4755.`Preformatted text`

The “chrome-sandbox” file contained in AppImages of this type does not have sufficient rights — see here.

sudo chown root:root chrome-sandbox
sudo chmod 4755 chrome-sandbox

What surprises and infuriates me is that the Ubuntu people and/or the AppImages/Electron developers still haven’t solved this compatibility problem. :face_without_mouth:

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