hi, as stated here , https://github.com/TheAssassin/AppImageLauncher/issues/652 i blindly reported on this bug report without seeing this was not the correct place, so i place it here. the latest appimage are not being able to be integrated, i ve checked for 8.4 image and 8.5 , and got the same error (as in the link above : ** (process:5399): CRITICAL **: 10:03:46.030: Failed to find desktop file path apparently this is due to a misnaming of the desktop file ?
Are you able to integrate another application distributed as AppImage bundle ?
For the 8.4.0, something was broken for the integration. It's fixed in 8.5.0... So forget 8.4.0
(In reply to caulier.gilles from comment #1) > Are you able to integrate another application distributed as AppImage bundle > ? yes, just tried with audacity freshly downloaded (never used before) . downloaded from appimagehub. when i do integrate and launch, it copies the file to the correct location and creates the correct desktop shortcut location.
(In reply to caulier.gilles from comment #2) > For the 8.4.0, something was broken for the integration. It's fixed in > 8.5.0... So forget 8.4.0 here the logs from a launch of 8.4.0 and 8.5.0 , looks identical behavior, the ** (AppImageLauncher:285753): CRITICAL **: 13:35:06.824: Failed to find desktop file path appears while clicking on the "integrate and launch" button of the appimage launcher window. ` ouinouin@ouindell:~$ AppImageLauncher /home/ouinouin/Applications/digiKam-8.4.0-Qt6-x86-64_97532ebe62ba5dabb5109d0c795a129c.appimage --help AppImageLauncher error: appimage_shall_not_be_integrated() failed (returned -1) AppImageLauncher error: appimage_is_terminal_app() failed (returned -1) (AppImageLauncher:285753): GLib-CRITICAL **: 13:35:04.521: g_file_test: assertion 'filename != NULL' failed (AppImageLauncher:285753): GLib-CRITICAL **: 13:35:06.824: g_path_get_basename: assertion 'file_name != NULL' failed ** (AppImageLauncher:285753): CRITICAL **: 13:35:06.824: Failed to find desktop file path ouinouin@ouindell:~$ AppImageLauncher /home/ouinouin/Applications/digiKam-8.5.0-20240924T100117-Qt6-x86-64_3540288aa706a1df3690c83e35ded899.appimage --help AppImageLauncher error: appimage_shall_not_be_integrated() failed (returned -1) AppImageLauncher error: appimage_is_terminal_app() failed (returned -1) (AppImageLauncher:285923): GLib-CRITICAL **: 13:35:21.929: g_file_test: assertion 'filename != NULL' failed (AppImageLauncher:285923): GLib-CRITICAL **: 13:35:26.346: g_path_get_basename: assertion 'file_name != NULL' failed ** (AppImageLauncher:285923): CRITICAL **: 13:35:26.346: Failed to find desktop file path ouinouin@ouindell:~$ `
while failing the desktop displays a popup window showing this message : "Impossible d'enregistrer l'AppImage dans le système via libappimage"
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 492813 ***
There is also the possibility that it is an AppImageLauncher bug: https://github.com/TheAssassin/AppImageLauncher/issues/652 Unfortunately no answer from the AppImageLauncher developers yet... Maik
(In reply to Maik Qualmann from comment #7) > There is also the possibility that it is an AppImageLauncher bug: > > https://github.com/TheAssassin/AppImageLauncher/issues/652 > > Unfortunately no answer from the AppImageLauncher developers yet... > > Maik i digged in a lot of unsolved bugs of this type, i finally was able to fix this bydecompressing the image and rebuiding it , it first complained about the desktop files being at the root of the folder not being real desktop files, so i copied the desktop files located in usr/share/applications to the root , then it was complaininf about missing icon for showfoto , so i copied the digikam.png and renamed showfoto.png to give a try , and could build image with appimagetool. first try : complains about desktop file : appimagetool, continuous build (commit 5735cc5), build <local dev build> built on 2023-03-08 22:52:04 UTC /home/ouinouin/testappimage/digiKam-8.5.0-20240924T100117-Qt6-x86-64-debug_3f5bdd0503e367bc9a9a796b6353f72b.appimage/org.kde.showfoto.desktop: error: file contains line "usr/share/applications/org.kde.showfoto.desktop", which is not a comment, a group or an entry ERROR: Desktop file contains errors. Please fix them. Please see https://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/1.0/n for more information. ouinouin@ouindell:~/testappimage$ ./appimagetool-x86_64.AppImage digiKam-8.5.0-20240924T100117-Qt6-x86-64-debug_3f5bdd0503e367bc9a9a796b6353f72b.appimage digikamouin.appimage second try , copied correct desktop files in the root folder : Failed to enable unit: Unit file /etc/xdg/systemd/user/appimagelauncherd.service is masked. appimagetool, continuous build (commit 5735cc5), build <local dev build> built on 2023-03-08 22:52:04 UTC Using architecture x86_64 /home/ouinouin/testappimage/digiKam-8.5.0-20240924T100117-Qt6-x86-64-debug_3f5bdd0503e367bc9a9a796b6353f72b.appimage should be packaged as digikamouin.appimage showfoto{.png,.svg,.xpm} defined in desktop file but not found For example, you could put a 256x256 pixel png into /home/ouinouin/testappimage/digiKam-8.5.0-20240924T100117-Qt6-x86-64-debug_3f5bdd0503e367bc9a9a796b6353f72b.appimage/showfoto.png third try , adding shofoto.png in the root folder : appimagetool, continuous build (commit 5735cc5), build <local dev build> built on 2023-03-08 22:52:04 UTC Using architecture x86_64 /home/ouinouin/testappimage/digiKam-8.5.0-20240924T100117-Qt6-x86-64-debug_3f5bdd0503e367bc9a9a796b6353f72b.appimage should be packaged as digikamouin.appimage AppStream upstream metadata found in usr/share/metainfo/org.kde.showfoto.appdata.xml Trying to validate AppStream information with the appstreamcli tool In case of issues, please refer to https://github.com/ximion/appstream org.kde.digikam.appdata.xml I: org.kde.digikam.desktop:61: summary-has-dot-suffix Xestor de álbums de fotos. org.kde.showfoto.appdata.xml I: org.kde.showfoto.desktop:61: summary-has-dot-suffix Editor de imaxes. ✔ La validation a réussi : informations : 2 Generating squashfs... Parallel mksquashfs: Using 4 processors Creating 4.0 filesystem on digikamouin.appimage, block size 131072. [===========================================================================================================================================================================\] 25536/25536 100% Exportable Squashfs 4.0 filesystem, gzip compressed, data block size 131072 compressed data, compressed metadata, compressed fragments, compressed xattrs, compressed ids duplicates are removed Filesystem size 940815.47 Kbytes (918.77 Mbytes) 39.73% of uncompressed filesystem size (2367947.15 Kbytes) Inode table size 127710 bytes (124.72 Kbytes) 37.29% of uncompressed inode table size (342494 bytes) Directory table size 72213 bytes (70.52 Kbytes) 36.63% of uncompressed directory table size (197168 bytes) Number of duplicate files found 688 Number of inodes 8403 Number of files 7922 Number of fragments 642 Number of symbolic links 0 Number of device nodes 0 Number of fifo nodes 0 Number of socket nodes 0 Number of directories 481 Number of ids (unique uids + gids) 1 Number of uids 1 root (0) Number of gids 1 root (0) Embedding ELF... Marking the AppImage as executable... Embedding MD5 digest Success Please consider submitting your AppImage to AppImageHub, the crowd-sourced central directory of available AppImages, by opening a pull request at https://github.com/AppImage/appimage.github.io
Ok I seen. Can you resume the change/fix to operate in the AppImage file hierarchy exactly ? I will fix the build script accordingly and rebuild the AppImage 8.5.0. Thanks Gilles Caulier
yes, i ll revert to you, i found the decompression method was not correct and was eating symlinks, i m doing further tests.
I don't understand which line in org.kde.showfoto.desktop is wrong. All entries conform to the Freedesktop specification for desktop files 1.0. Maik
Please test the current AppImage, which should not contain the two *desktop files, to see if this is actually the main cause. https://files.kde.org/digikam/ Maik
(In reply to Maik Qualmann from comment #12) > Please test the current AppImage, which should not contain the two *desktop > files, to see if this is actually the main cause. > > https://files.kde.org/digikam/ > > Maik Hi, i already tried and it also fails , i found some of the culrpit, i just need a bit of time to finish unpackin repacking to test.
so i did a bit of fiddling with unpacking repacking the images, first , never attemps to unpack with an unzipping tool as it breaks symlinks. second : it seems the appimage doesnt like the desktop files being symlinks (not 100% sure), so i removed the symling and placed the original .desktop files instead in the root folder of the decompressed image third , i had to modify the desktop entry like the following : [Desktop Entry] Type=Application Categories=Qt;Graphics;Photography; X-AppImage-Version=8.5.0 Exec=AppRun --no-sandbox %U Icon=digikam X-DocPath=digikam/index.html calling the digikam executable directly is not working apparently for integration in the Exec section so i inspired myself from many other appimages that i unpacked , they all use Exec=AppRun --no-sandbox %U i had to add X-AppImage-Version=8.5.0 for the icon to be properly integrated , without that, i had no error for integration but no desktop entry was created so it semme mandatory fourth, i had to add the shofoto icon (shofoto.png in the root of the root folder of the decompressed image, found in usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps) , otherwise the packaging command throws an error about missing error. i could then launch and integrate without errors , and launch from mint menu once integrated without errors.
The Qt6 version of the AppImage is now up-to-date with last Maik changes. Gilles Caulier
I had to remove the --no-sandbox in the exec entry which is more oriented for electron packaged apps a piori. [Desktop Entry] Type=Application Categories=Qt;Graphics;Photography; X-AppImage-Version=8.5.0 Exec=AppRun %U Icon=digikam X-DocPath=digikam/index.html
Maik, Desktop files are mandatory to build the appimage bundle : ... ---------- Create Bundle with AppImage SDK stage2 appimagetool, continuous build (commit 5735cc5), build <local dev build> built on 2023-03-08 22:52:04 UTC Desktop file not found, aborting FAILED COMMAND: ARCH=x86_64 ./$APPIMGBIN --comp xz $APP_IMG_DIR/ $ORIG_WD/bundle/$APPIMAGE ... Gilles
Git commit 84747e27e2cf811d45b4c161e0e13ed3fd86292b by Gilles Caulier. Committed on 27/09/2024 at 08:15. Pushed by cgilles into branch 'master'. Restore .desktop files else compilation of AppImage will do not work M +2 -2 project/bundles/appimage/04-build-appimage.sh https://invent.kde.org/graphics/digikam/-/commit/84747e27e2cf811d45b4c161e0e13ed3fd86292b
Fixed with 492813