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I'm running Ubuntu 24.04.1 and wanting to install my first AppImage app (Publii). I've downloaded it, set the permissions to executable but it doesn't run when clicked on. When I run it from the terminal I get "AppImages require FUSE to run." Documentation from AppImages says to install fuse or fuse2 (https://docs.appimage.org/user-guide/troubleshooting/fuse.html?highlight=fuse3) but notes on this forum say that doing so will have bad consequences (How to safely install fuse on Ubuntu 22.04?). So does that leave me unable to run AppImages? Does fuse3 not do what AppImages needs it to do? Thanks.

judyback
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I've experienced this personally, and resolved it by installing fuse2 (Ubuntu 24.04). This package is missing by default on Ubuntu 22.04+ but is required by older AppImages. Seems to work well, no issues.

sudo apt update
sudo apt install libfuse2

Then make the appimage executable, and run it:

chmod +x YourApp.AppImage
./YourApp.AppImage

(Or, you can just run it from the graphical interface by double-clicking the file.)

James
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