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Helper application for Linux distributions serving as a kind of "entry point" for running and integrating AppImages (github.com)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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This should be installed as default in all distro. Run it with --install, put appimages in ~/Applications and it's done, you'll see all apps in your DE app men

Gearlever alternative: https://github.com/ivan-hc/gearlever-appimage

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[–] 1 point 4 months ago (3 children)

All I know is appImageLauncher gave me a lot of issues so as soon as I found an alternative I tried it and haven’t had an issue yet.

You likely ran an outdated version of appimagelauncher.

appimagelauncher for broken for several years when the static appimage runtime came up, the stable release didn't support it. So it would cause people to not be able to launch appimages at all.

It was fixed in the nightly releases but most people had no idea about that.

But anyways appimagelauncher right now does not support DWARFS as well, so it is not able to integrate other appimages. So do not go back to appimagelauncher.

Edit: apparently having an experience gets a downvote. Pretty whiny and weird thing to do.

Just in case it is not me that downvoted you lol

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    You likely ran an outdated version of appimagelauncher

    I'm just curious how you think this would have happened. Did I install it, not use it for months, never update my system, then start using it?

    I am not sure it matters why or what issues I had, but I had a few, enough to look for an alternative. In fact my experience with AIL is part of the reason I avoid appImages. They just don't seem to work well in my experience. In any case you were dismissive in your first message and really negative about software that works fine for me, citing reasons that don't seem relevant to my use case, about details that never seemed to impact me. I just know I tried to use AIL for a couple of years and had issues multiple times, the last time resulting in breaking an app. So I stopped using it.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    I’m just curious how you think this would have happened.

    because unless you went out of your way to build appimage luancher or install the nightly releases you would have run into that problem.

    That problem was serious enough that we had to add a warning to all of our appimage repos to give you an idea. lsfg-vk even had it happen several times in 2025 💀

    And note removing/updating appimage launcher wasn't enough, you also had to reboot, because the thing had a daemon with a binfmt rule that would still prevent you from launching appimages.

    In any case you were dismissive in your first message and really negative about software that works fine for me,

    I'm very sorry, I thought you were responding to this message about AppManager hence my tone.

    AppManager is good.

    If you wonder why AppImage had to update the appimage runtime, that is because the static runtime removed the libfuse2 dependency, which was a huge issue appimage had for a long time and to this day I still see people claim this is still a problem. It resulted in that mess with AppImageLauncher unfortunately.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago

    I update my system often and believe it or not reboot more than once every couple years ;) I'm clueless about all these details I just know from a user perspective I had some annoyances and breakages.

    I am not familiar with AppManager at all.

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