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How to run AppImage on PMOS? (appimage.org)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by oleksii@lemmy.ml to c/postmarketos@lemmy.ml

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PostmarketOS (PMOS) is built on Alpine Linux. Recently, I tried running the Tuta image but didn’t have any luck.

I’m eager to learn more about this topic and would love to share any solutions I discover along the way.

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[–] fossdd@chaos.social 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

@oleksii AppImages don't support musl systems. You can try setting up a distrobox or a chroot with a glibc-distro and launch the AppImage there.

[–] linmob@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

This. Also, most AppImages are x86_64 only. If they don't explicitly say it's for aarch64/arm64 you are going to also need some fun architecture translation (box64, fex, ...) to make the thing run. At that point, it's in many cases easier to try building from source IMHO.

PS: Good luck on Wayland can also be added, given probonopd's (AppImage inventor) stance on Wayland. I'd advise to not waste time with AppImages on #MobileLinux.

[–] bart@mastodon.fam-ribbers.com 1 points 7 months ago

@oleksii By realizing Appimages aren't portable at all and in fact a bit stupid, and then realizing you should've used Flatpak instead.
Honestly, they only work on systems that look like the system they were built on. And those systems do not run Musl libc...

[–] anon5621@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Did u try run it from terminal ?

[–] oleksii@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago