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Need help use AppImage

Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2019 8:16 am
by Djhappy
Hello ,

Im try to install a game Dofus (https://www.dofus.com/en/mmorpg/download) they have Linux version but its a AppImage. i have no idea how to use it or what to do and the site has no explanation. pleas some correct explanation will be help full.

I also used wine to run the windows exe. version but i getting crashes in wine.

thanks.

Re: Need help use AppImage

Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2019 10:16 am
by philotux

Re: Need help use AppImage

Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2019 8:10 am
by Djhappy
I have follow the steps:
-Download image
-Make it executable
-Run it

When I double click or normal click it do nothing. Can some one try it?

Re: Need help use AppImage

Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2019 8:54 am
by philotux
In the same folder where your appimage is stored, open a terminal and run:

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./some_name.AppImage
replacing some_name with the actual name to see if you can launch it that way.

Re: Need help use AppImage

Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2019 9:36 am
by andyprough
I was able to download the Dofus Appimage, changed the permission to be executable, and started it with a mouse click. As @ForWIW said, you may want to check if you are running a 64-bit system or not, as the executable won't run on a 32-bit system. To check your system setup, you can run:

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uname -a
and post the output here.

Re: Need help use AppImage

Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2019 11:40 am
by Stuart_M
Post #6 said he successfully opened the Dofus Appimage so I thought I'd try too.

I downloaded the 64-bit Appimage and gave it executable privileges on a Live (64-bit) MX-19 (November) USB Flash Drive and...nothing.

I don't know if the following has anything to do with the problem, but I remember at least one occasion in the past where I was not able to run an appimage on a Live MX Linux USB Flash Drive, but running the same appimage on installed hardware with the same MX version would work fine.

I only ran it on a Live flash drive because it will not harm my system since nothing will be saved to the USB drive when I shut it down.

Re: Need help use AppImage

Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2019 11:47 am
by andyprough
I see, yes I get the following error when trying to run the Appimage on a live USB:

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[4112:1209/114548.010694:FATAL:setuid_sandbox_host.cc(157)] 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_AnkamaMVXDFL/chrome-sandbox is owned by root and has mode 4755.
Trace/breakpoint trap

Re: Need help use AppImage

Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2019 12:44 pm
by Djhappy
uname -a

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Linux mx 4.19.0-6-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.67-2+deb10u2 (2019-11-11) x86_64 GNU/Linux
I see i running 64bit correct?

Re: Need help use AppImage

Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2019 12:49 pm
by Djhappy
./some_name.AppImage

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DJ@mx:~/Downloads
$ ./Ankama Launcher-Setup-x86_64.AppImage
bash: ./Ankama: No such file or directory

Re: Need help use AppImage

Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2019 2:31 pm
by timkb4cq
Spaces in Linux generally separate program names & their arguments. Your command is being interpreted as "run Akama with the parameters Launcher-Setup-x86_64.AppImage"
Thus, spaces in the middle of filenames need to be escaped, or the name quoted. so it's either

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./Ankama\ Launcher-Setup-x86_64.AppImage
or

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./"Ankama Launcher-Setup-x86_64.AppImage"
BTW, entering the beginning of the command ./Anka and pressing the Tab key should fill in the command correctly for you.