This should be installed as default in all distro. Run it with --install, put appimages in ~/Applications and it’s done, you’ll see all apps in your DE app men
Gearlever alternative: https://github.com/ivan-hc/gearlever-appimage
This should be installed as default in all distro. Run it with --install, put appimages in ~/Applications and it’s done, you’ll see all apps in your DE app men
Gearlever alternative: https://github.com/ivan-hc/gearlever-appimage
Does it manage the --no-sandbox option often needed?
I have never used that flag. Does that just enable full system access without the usual layer of sandbox protection?
Yes,and it’s the only way to start some apps on Ubuntu
Don’t run electron/chromium apps with
--no-sandbox, that is not safe, you are exposing yourself to the internet.Canonical decided on ubuntu 24.04 to disable unpriv namespaces in the name of security, in reality they did it to push snaps since that change breaks appimage and flatpak.
Do what linux mint ended up doing and disable the restriction.
kernel.apparmor_restrict_unprivileged_userns = 0' | sudo tee /etc/sysctl.d/20-fix-namespaces.conf sysctl -w kernel.apparmor_restrict_unprivileged_userns=0Or better yet just don’t use ubuntu, it is just a source nightmares, the uuttils switch even broke one of my appimages…