What about appimagelauncher ?!?

[caho]

Hello,

i see, that the software “appimagelauncher” is not in the repos.
How can I run an appimage like “musescore studio”? Is therefore an another application instead?

regards
caho

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[scotty65]

appimagelauncher was dropped from the repos earlier this year:

Problems with AppImageLauncher

It hasn’t been in a very long time if it ever was. Well, then I’ll drop it from the repos most likely. It hasn’t seem much upstream development in years. There have been issues building it quite frequently. Try Gear Lever as an alternative. It’s available in the AUR as gearlever and as a Flatpak.

Although it does look like there has been some recent work done on it, according to its GitHub page. It is still available in the AUR: AUR (en) - appimagelauncher

Here are the details for Gear Lever:

Gear Lever

It can be installed from Manjaro’s extra repo:

pamac info gearlever 
Name                  : gearlever
Version               : 3.1.1-1
Description           : Manage AppImages with ease
URL                   : https://mijorus.it/projects/gearlever
Licenses              : GPL-3.0-or-later
Repository            : extra
Installed Size        : 1.2 MB
Groups                : --
Depends On            : 7zip binutils fuse2 libadwaita python-dbus python-gobject python-pyxdg python-requests which
Optional Dependencies : --
Provides              : --
Replaces              : --
Conflicts With        : --
Packager              : Mark Wagie <mark@manjaro.org>
Build Date            : Wed 02 Apr 2025 04:14:25
Validated By          : MD5 Sum  SHA-256 Sum  Signature

Note: There is also a gearlever package in the AUR. If installing gearlever using Pamac’s GUI or any other software installation app which includes an AUR helper, users should double-check which one they have selected for installation before proceeding:

mbn info gearlever -q | grep -Ev 'Name|Repository|Packager'
Branch         : unstable
Version        : 3.1.1-1
Build Date     : Wed 02 Apr 2025 04:14:25 
Branch         : testing
Version        : 3.1.1-1
Build Date     : Wed 02 Apr 2025 04:14:25 
Branch         : stable
Version        : 3.1.1-1
Build Date     : Wed 02 Apr 2025 04:14:25 
AUR            : ------
Version        : 3.1.1-3
Date           : Thu 03 Apr 2025 00:09:36 
Url            : https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gearlever

_{mbn can be found in the manjaro-check-repos package}

[Nachlese]

~/.local/bin is in your $PATH by default, if I’m not mistaken.

echo $PATH

will tell you

You can put the Appimage there, make it executable and can then start it from terminal by typing it’s name.
This is the way I use Clipgrab.

Or you call it with the full PATH to wherever you decide to put it.

You can create a desktop launcher that uses this information - can’t tell you how exactly that works in KDE.
You’ll figure it out.

[caho]

OK, thank you for your fast answer. I will install Gear Lever now.

regards
caho

[caho]

until now, I started the appimage by click to my musescore-files. In the kde system-settings I included it so:

It works fine for me.
So do I need gearlever or appimagelauncher really?
how can I simple test it without them with a backup option?

the flatpak package is unfortunately not up to date…

[Nachlese]

@caho

It works fine for me.

It does for me, too.

@caho

So do I need gearlever or appimagelauncher really?

Not really, no.

I told you how I do this - I put the Appimage somewhere in my $PATH (~/.local/bin), make it executable and call it via Terminal by it’s name.

I haven’t bothered to create a Launcher.
I use Xfce4.

What you describe here is associating musescore files with this application.
That should be fine - it can be changed or removed at any time.

I’m however not used to with KDE/Plasma.
I do not know how to answer your question:

@caho

how can I simple test it without them with a backup option?

[caho]

OK, thank you very much for your hints, @Nachlese

regards
caho

[Yochanan]

Just in case it wasn’t clear in the linked thread above, I dropped appimagelauncher and added gearlever at the same time.

@Yochanan

gearlever
appimagelauncher