How to install an AppImage package in Ubuntu

Applications in Ubuntu

Although it seems that the future of application installation packages will be divided between Flatpak and snap, there are other types of universal packages, that is, they do not need to depend on a specific distribution.

Within these types of packages AppImage packages stand out. These types of packages can be installed in Ubuntu without having any special software or depending on the version of Ubuntu that we use. But What is AppImage? Is there a company behind the format?

AppImage is a universal package that was born under the name Klik and later became PortableLinuxApps, finally this type of package was called AppImage. This package is characterized by not needing any distribution or any library, everything is in the application that curiously is not installed in the distribution.

AppImage was once the Linux portable

AppImage is a package similar to portable Windows applications. So a program with AppImage is not installed but is executed and for this we will not need to use administrator permissions. To be able to install AppImage we just have to open the terminal and write the following:

chmod a+x paquete.AppImage

./paquete.AppImage

This will run the package automatically without needing to be a system administrator.

The graphical alternative to this method is to right-click on the package and not only give Read and Write permissions to the user, but also check the box » Allow to run the file as an executable program»We save it and close it. Then we double click on the package and the automatic execution of the program will begin.

As you can see, the execution or "installation" of an AppImage package is quite simple and fast, but we have to bear in mind that the application is not installed on our Ubuntu, so we will not be able to create shortcuts or other things that we do with the installed applications.


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  1.   Hexabor of Ur said

    I disagree about what it says about not being able to create launchers ... Just go to the «Create New launcher» utility, put the name of the program in the name, navigate to the App and select it in the command and leave empty or repeat the name in comments.
    As an image for the icon, we already downloaded one and added it with the same launcher creator and that's it.
    So I do it and those accesses are anchored to the menu bar or to the dock of our preference (Plank, Cairo, etc).

  2.   José said

    Good article, although you can create shortcuts in the launcher using .desktop files. Greetings.

  3.   Eraser said

    It does not answer the question. It doesn't say how to install them

    1.    sadalzuud said

      Well, man, because right there in the article it says: they don't install, they just run. They are like Windows program portals

  4.   Isidro said

    Thanks for sharing your work.
    Not working