Problem with certain apps

[Sush-ruta]

Hi. There are problems with certain apps with appman.

1. Todoist
   This is the .desktop file of the appman installed program:

❯ bat todoist-AM.desktop
───────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
       │ File: todoist-AM.desktop
───────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
   1   │ [Desktop Entry]
   2   │ Name=Todoist
   3   │ Comment=Todoist for linux
   4   │ Exec=/home/sushruta/.local/bin/todoist
   5   │ Terminal=false
   6   │ Type=Application
   7   │ Icon=/home/sushruta/AppMan/todoist/icons/todoist
   8   │ StartupWMClass=Todoist
   9   │ X-AppImage-Version=1.0.1
  10   │ Categories=Office;Utility;
  11   │ X-AppImage-BuildId=18KSQu6pNIo9LTVUgaF42F4S6Ku
───────┴──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

Running $HOME/.local/bin/todoist does nothing, so the application does not launch from the app menu. However, launching directly from ~/AppMan/todoist/todoist brings up the appimagelauncher dialog box (integration), so I guess that works. I don't know why the .local/bin symlink does not work.

2. Evince and baobab-gtk3

❯ appman install evince baobab-gtk3
============================================================================

                  START OF ALL INSTALLATION PROCESSES

============================================================================

 ◆ "EVINCE": starting installation script

Document-Viewer_46.3.1-2- 100%[===================================>]  55.69M  6.23MB/s    in 9.1s    
This doesn't look like a squashfs image.
Failed to open squashfs image
This doesn't look like a squashfs image.
Failed to open squashfs image
sed: can't read ./evince.desktop: No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat './evince.desktop': No such file or directory

 "EVINCE" INSTALLED (56 MB OF DISK SPACE)
____________________________________________________________________________

 ◆ "BAOBAB-GTK3": starting installation script

Disk_Usage_Analyzer-3.38. 100%[===================================>]   3.74M  3.83MB/s    in 1.0s    
This doesn't look like a squashfs image.
Failed to open squashfs image
This doesn't look like a squashfs image.
Failed to open squashfs image
sed: can't read ./baobab-gtk3.desktop: No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat './baobab-gtk3.desktop': No such file or directory

 "BAOBAB-GTK3" INSTALLED (4 MB OF DISK SPACE)
____________________________________________________________________________
============================================================================

None of them show up in app menu.

3. OBS Studio

❯ appman install obs-studio
============================================================================

                  START OF ALL INSTALLATION PROCESSES

============================================================================

 ◆ "OBS-STUDIO": starting installation script

OBS-Studio_30.2.1-1-archi 100%[===================================>] 189.86M  4.90MB/s    in 34s     
This doesn't look like a squashfs image.
Failed to open squashfs image
This doesn't look like a squashfs image.
Failed to open squashfs image
sed: can't read ./obs-studio.desktop: No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat './obs-studio.desktop': No such file or directory

 "OBS-STUDIO" INSTALLED (190 MB OF DISK SPACE)
____________________________________________________________________________
============================================================================

Does not show up in app menu.

[ivan-hc]

I have tested my AppImages (baobab-gtk3, evince and obs-studio) with AM and AppMan, no issues. Something is wrong with your squashfs installation.

About Todoist, I get this message

zenity, kdialog, Xdialog missing. Skipping /tmp/.mount_todoisUdLR2r/AppRun.
Segmentation fault (core dump created)*

*I have tried to translate the last line in english, this is the screenshot in italian

anyway, to show the message, the app interacts with the action, so the .desktop file should work. Try to run todoist from the terminal and see the error message.

[ivan-hc]

appimagelauncher

have you it installed? it may cause problems, remove it asap, its an obsolete piece of software.

EDIT: also reboot after you remove it.

[Sush-ruta]

appimagelauncher is the first software I install after distro installation since I shifted to Linux ~ 5 years ago. I mainly use it to install appimages that I compiled, downloaded from Pling Store etc. I guess I can integrate them manually with am.
Also simply running todoist on terminal does nothing:

❯ todoist

In fact running in using the binary in ~/AppMan/ todoist/todoist also does not work.

I see that the software itself is an unofficial wrapper. That would not be necessary any more since Todoist has its own official appimage releases on its website. This is the download link. @ivan-hc

[ivan-hc]

appimagelauncher is unmaintained and obsolete and could cause issues.

Theni I should update todoist, I also noticed that ira at least 8 major releases behind the one we have.

[ivan-hc]

About squashfs-tools, what distro you have and what is the status of this package on your system?

[Sush-ruta]

@ivan-hc will purge appimagelauncher then. Thanks for the heads up.
I use elementary OS horus 7.1 x86_64 (bad choice).

❯ sudo apt install squashfs-tools
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
squashfs-tools is already the newest version (1:4.5-3build1).
squashfs-tools set to manually installed.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.

[ivan-hc]

Why a bad choice? Its a good distro (rich of paywalls, but yet user friendly at least, better than Ubuntu).

I don't know why you get these errors, but you should try to re-install the packages and see what is the problem. Also the latest appimage you suggested and you were unable to add in the other issue works for me.

I use always AppMan in my tests, so I'm sure that it works for AM too.

[ivan-hc]

Also, have you tried to run ./appimagename --appimage-extract ? For example

./obs-studio --appimage-extract

[Sush-ruta]

No complains with eOS other than them following the apple way of "no modification allowed because devs know the best".

I will try to reinstall squashfs-tools and try some time later, if it is solved, I will let you know. Thanks for the advice.
Also:

~/AppMan/evince 
❯ ./evince --appimage-extract
This doesn't look like a squashfs image.
Failed to open squashfs image

[ivan-hc]

its really strange, is this a fresh installation or you have always used AM/AppMan on this system?

[Sush-ruta]

I have been using appman since discovering it about a year ago. Always had problem with these ones, today I remembered to open the issue. I will try to boot an Ubuntu installation and try this there and see if there are problems. For now, if you feel there are no issues for all users, you can close this @ivan-hc

[ivan-hc]

You don't need to reboot another installation, its better to face the issue now.

Something is missing in the squashfs-tolls, maybe a different compression language to use. Let me investigate.

[ivan-hc]

What is your FUSE (2 and 3) installation status? And are binutils (command strip exactly) available?

[Sush-ruta]

❯ sudo apt install libfuse2:amd64 libfuse3-3:amd64 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
libfuse2 is already the newest version (2.9.9-5ubuntu3).
libfuse3-3 is already the newest version (3.14.0-4~22.04.sav0).
libfuse3-3 set to manually installed.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.

❯ sudo apt install fuse3
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
fuse3 is already the newest version (3.14.0-4~22.04.sav0).
fuse3 set to manually installed.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.

❯ which strip
/usr/bin/strip

@ivan-hc

[ivan-hc]

I know sav0, "SavOS" PPAs were something I used before to build AppImages, but developed by one person. Is that "fuse3" a reliable one?

[ivan-hc]

Anyway it seems that appimagelauncher caused the issue, and you should get rid of all files left with the latest appimagelauncher installation and then reboot.

[Sush-ruta]

I will try to remove the sav0 ppa and reinstall fuse3 to avoid problems. I will also remove appimagelauncher and try again. I will need to install the appimages I have with appimagelauncher using am. It will take some time. You can close this meanwhile, I will update here. @ivan-hc Thank you for the help.

[ivan-hc]

I'll keep this opened until you confirm that the solution works for you, don't worry. It may help others with your same issue.

[Sush-ruta]

I uninstalled appimagelauncher, the problem was magically solved. Thanks for the patient advices @ivan-hc . Closing the issue now, finally.