{"id":61877,"date":"2024-01-02T11:48:38","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T10:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/61877\/run-appimage-in-linux-mint-ubuntu\/"},"modified":"2024-10-06T10:59:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-06T09:59:24","slug":"run-appimage-in-linux-mint-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/61877\/run-appimage-in-linux-mint-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"Run AppImage in Linux Mint \/ Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Execute AppImage file in Linux.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Nextcloud app for Linux comes as an &#8220;AppImage&#8221; file. This contains the complete application. So far so nice. But after the download, the software could not be started easily. Instead, all I got was &#8220;Unknown file type&#8221; and I was asked which application I wanted to use to open the file.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/appimage_1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"742\" height=\"395\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-61869\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/appimage_1.png 742w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/appimage_1-300x160.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 742px) 100vw, 742px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q487bACDV0Q?si=NSXuCvEclJ1ZvcjY\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Solution: Make the file executable<\/h2>\n<p>The solution is simple, the file must be made executable. This can be done via the settings. Here we set the right to execute. That&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/appimage_2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"589\" height=\"508\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-61873\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/appimage_2.png 589w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/appimage_2-300x259.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 589px) 100vw, 589px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Execute AppImage file in Linux.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}