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missing dependency in LocalSend-1.17.0-linux-x86-64.AppImage

Open FiSHYsolutions opened this issue 11 months ago • 1 comments

Describe the bug

The AppImage doesn't work (start) in Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS until you install libfuse2.

To reproduce

  1. Download LocalSend-1.17.0-linux-x86-64.AppImage
  2. make LocalSend-1.17.0-linux-x86-64.AppImage executeable
  3. Doubleclick LocalSend-1.17.0-linux-x86-64.AppImage
  4. ...nothing happens...
  5. open a Terminal
  6. run ./LocalSend-1.17.0-linux-x86-64.AppImage
  7. get an error:

Image

  1. do a workaround:
  2. open a Terminal
  3. do a sudo apt install libfuse2
  4. Doubleclick LocalSend-1.17.0-linux-x86-64.AppImage again, everything works fine

Expected behavior

working App without external dependencies, so you can just:

  1. Download LocalSend LocalSend-1.17.0-linux-x86-64.AppImage
  2. make LocalSend-1.17.0-linux-x86-64.AppImage executeable
  3. Doubleclick LocalSend-1.17.0-linux-x86-64.AppImage

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Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS

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FiSHYsolutions avatar May 17 '25 11:05 FiSHYsolutions

Appimages require FUSE. See here: https://docs.appimage.org/user-guide/troubleshooting/fuse.html#the-appimage-tells-me-it-needs-fuse-to-run

ayykamp avatar May 27 '25 14:05 ayykamp