Saturday, November 09, 2024

Ubuntu 24.04.1 AppImages Not Working

I upgraded from 22.04 to 24.04.1 on my Ubuntu box and some of my AppImages stopped working. Not all of them just a few.  First to get AppImages working at all, you have to install libfuse2t64, which is different from what you need on 22.04.

To install libfuse2t64 open a Terminal Windows and run the following command:

 sudo apt install libfuse2t64

Even after this, some AppImages still won't work.  They give an error something like this:

[:FATAL:setuid_sandbox_host.cc(158)]

The SUID sandbox helper binary was found, but is not configured correctly. Rather than run without sandboxing I'm aborting now. You need to make sure that /tmp/.mount_ObsidiOpBPaM/chrome-sandbox is owned by root and has mode 4755.

This is a known issue with no time frame listed for a fix.  The only work around for this I could find is to run your AppImage with the  "--no-sandbox" option like this:

./Appimage_File_Name.AppImage --no-sandbox

This allows your appimages to run but they will NOT BE SANDBOXEDKnow that this could be a problem if you get a rouge appimage so only use this solution if you really need the app and are aware of the risks you are taking.

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