Opening AppImage does nothing. What can I do?

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I am a complete newbie to Linux and trying to open an AppImage called Magick which is an Imagemagick application.

I tried right clicking on the AppImage and checked "run file as an executable" option but that didn't work. Another thing that I tried is running this command,

chmod a+x magick.AppImage

This gives me an error,

chmod: cannot access 'magick.AppImage': No such file or directory

I have also tried running the file by navigating into the folder that contains the file and opening up the terminal there but still no luck.

I am running Ubuntu on Oracle VM VirtualBox.

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1 Answers

ImageMagick is a command-line tool, you don't run it by clicking on it.

To run it in a terminal you need to

  1. Set the executable flag on the .AppImage (once for all): chmod +x TheApp.AppImage
  2. Then to run it just invoke the AppImage: ./TheApp.AppImage <arg1> <arg2> ....

If the directory with your .AppImage is in your PATH, you can remove the ./ (or whatever directory the AppImage is in).

ImageMagick is also available as a regular application from your Ubuntu repository: sudo apt install imagemagick

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