I downloaded kdenlive, a video editor, and I now have a kdenlive.appimage file on my Desktop now. How can I can get that .appimage file to show as an application in the apps view?
I tried dragging the .appimage file into the "Ubuntu Software" GUI but that didn't do anything.
I tried installing kdenlive through Ubuntu software, but that version seems older than the version I downloaded as an appimage
Best Answer
Making AppImages executable
Before you can run an AppImage, you need to make it executable. This is a Linux security feature. There are three main ways to make an AppImage executable:
With the GUI
On the command line
Integrating AppImages with the system
You do not need to integrate an AppImage with the system (menus) in order to use it. If you still would like to integrate AppImages with the system (menus, icons, MIME types), you can use the optional
appimaged
daemon.https://github.com/AppImage/appimaged
appimaged
is an optional daemon that watches locations like~/bin
and~/Downloads
for AppImages and if it detects some, registers them with the system, so that they show up in the menu, have their icons show up, MIME types associated, etc. It also unregisters AppImages again from the system if they are deleted.Automatically with the optional appimaged daemon
If you would like to have all AppImages be executable automatically, you can install the optional
appimaged
daemon. It will automatically add downloaded AppImages to the menu and make them executable for you. It can be downloaded from https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/releases or installed from your distribution.