aurelienpierreeng/ansel

The Appimage has stopped working

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Annabel2 commented

I've been using the Ansel Appimage for a while with Ubuntu 20.04. Currently appimage Ansel-06d9cda-x86_64 from about a month ago. This is still working.
Today I downloaded the latest, Ansel-3cf785d-x86_64, but it won't run. I've set it to allow execution in Permissions. When I double-click it, nothing happens. I downloaded an older one, several days old, that was the same. If I re-download my current one, 06d9cda, that works.
Any ideas please?!

TimConnelly commented

I just hit the same issue on Ubuntu 20.04. It appears that Ansel-3cf785d-x86_64 relies on a minimum glibC version of 2.32, whereas Ubuntu 20.04 ships 2.31. Without tracking down the reason for the change, the options I see are:

  1. Use older build
  2. Build latest locally
  3. Upgrade to Ubuntu 22.04, which uses a newer glibC (I intend to do this soon anyway)
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aurelienpierre commented

My hands are tied here. Rawspeed needs at least GCC 12, which is not available on Ubuntu 20.04.

Annabel2 commented

I understand these things to only a limited degree but I thought the whole point of appimages, flatpaks, was to avoid version clashes and build problems. I.e. appimage has GCC12 within it.

deadmeu commented

I understand these things to only a limited degree but I thought the whole point of appimages, flatpaks, was to avoid version clashes and build problems. I.e. appimage has GCC12 within it.

I'm not an expert and have not used appimages very much but it seems like, according to this page, appimages need to be built targeting the oldest base system you intend to run your software on.

I believe a Flatpak would work as you expect it would due to the sandboxing and runtime isolation (i.e. an old distro should be able to run a Flatpak running on a more recent runtime).

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Tokariew commented

The problem with flatpak is it not supporting opencl for AMD cards currently.