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standalone program

Asked by jon k

Hi,
I tried using a standalone ( no install ) program, the one with .AppImage file extension.
R/C and dived into her properties, permissions tab and tried check the lowest box - Allow this file to run as program ( notice the danger to run also). But failed. Uncheckable

I came to know this kind of file doesn't require root privileges. I alone use this Xubuntu ver 20.04 as owner and logged in as owner.
Is any measure taken by Ubuntu not letting it run to these kind of file or the package is something wrong? If the package has problem, I ask Session PM https://getsession.org/download/ to check their one. Any help

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#1

Details please, or is this just SPAM ?

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jon k (zartlike) said : 		#2

What more details do you need?
File name is session-desktop-linux-x86_64-1.4.11.AppImage 93.7 Mb

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#3

For diagnostic purposes please provide the output of the following commands

uname -a
lsb_release -crid
ls -l session-desktop-linux-x86_64-1.4.11.AppImage

(cd into the directory with the Appimage file first, if necessary)

Sorry for misinterpreting your message as potential spam, but putting links to foreign web pages very often is an indication for that.

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jon k (zartlike) said : 		#4

jon@mahui:/media/jon/OCEAN/Cinnamon/Downloads/Session n Loki$ uname -a
Linux mahui 5.8.0-44-generic #50~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Feb 10 21:07:30 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
jon@mahui:/media/jon/OCEAN/Cinnamon/Downloads/Session n Loki$ lsb_release-crid
lsb_release-crid: command not found
jon@mahui:/media/jon/OCEAN/Cinnamon/Downloads/Session n Loki$ lsb_release -crid
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
Release: 20.04
Codename: focal
jon@mahui:/media/jon/OCEAN/Cinnamon/Downloads/Session n Loki$ ls -l session-desktop-linux-x86_64-1.4.11.AppImage
-rw-r--r-- 1 jon jon 98235099 Mar 8 16:31 session-desktop-linux-x86_64-1.4.11.AppImage
jon@mahui:/media/jon/OCEAN/Cinnamon/Downloads/Session n Loki$

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Best Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#5

Try the commands

chmod u+x session-desktop-linux-x86_64-1.4.11.AppImage
./session-desktop-linux-x86_64-1.4.11.AppImage

and report what's happening.

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jon k (zartlike) said : 		#6

jon@mahui:/media/jon/OCEAN/Cinnamon/Downloads/Session n Loki$ chmod u+x session-desktop-linux-x86_64-1.4.11.AppImage
jon@mahui:/media/jon/OCEAN/Cinnamon/Downloads/Session n Loki$ ./session-desktop-linux-x86_64-1.4.11.AppImage

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jon k (zartlike) said : 		#7

Thanks Manfred Hampl, that solved my question.

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jon k (zartlike) said : 		#8

I copied that file to my home drive Downloads and ran the commands.

jon@mahui:~/Downloads/Session$ chmod u+x session-desktop-linux-x86_64-1.4.11.AppImage
jon@mahui:~/Downloads/Session$ ./session-desktop-linux-x86_64-1.4.11.AppImage

Later, r/c on that file and found that it is already ticked to run as program. I ran it and it asked to upgrade it and upgraded and working well.
I think, I ran from different partition ( fat 32) where I downloaded to first.

Thanks Manfred