# Does my / this distro support AppImage?

**URL:** <https://discourse.appimage.org/t/does-my-this-distro-support-appimage/2235>\
**Category:** Using AppImages\
**Created:** [January 18, 2021, 11:34am UTC](https://discourse.appimage.org/t/does-my-this-distro-support-appimage/2235 "2021-01-18T11:34:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![yPhil](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/discourse.appimage.org/yphil/32/502_2.png) [@yPhil](https://discourse.appimage.org/u/yPhil)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2021, 11:34am UTC](https://discourse.appimage.org/t/does-my-this-distro-support-appimage/2235/1 "2021-01-18T11:34:02Z")

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Hi, I’m Phil ; I’ve been using AppImages for years now (mainly in Debian stable) specially in the music app sphere, where bleding edge apps are seldom packaged, a good example being QTractor, my sequencer of choice.  
I tried a lot of other “self-contained linux executable” formats, namely snap and flatpak, but none worked for me, AppImage does.

Now ; I’m on this machine (that happens to be a raspberry pi 4, but it’s not really the point, more later) and I can’t get AppImage to work :

```
chmod +x my.AppImage
./my.AppImage
bash : ./my.AppImage: No such file or directory

```

So I’d like to take this from the start :

- How do I check for AppImage Capabilities on a given Distro ?
- Is there a list of very simple (like not subsurface or some huge framework) apps in AppImage format for testing?

Ideally, I’d love a command / script that would output :

- `Yes, this OS can run AppImages in this format : aarch64 GNU/Linux` or
- `No, this OS cannot run AppImages because those libs are missing : x, y, etc.`

Is this possible?

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**Author:** ![probono](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/discourse.appimage.org/probono/32/81_2.png) [@probono](https://discourse.appimage.org/u/probono)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2021, 1:07pm UTC](https://discourse.appimage.org/t/does-my-this-distro-support-appimage/2235/2 "2021-01-30T13:07:26Z")

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> [@yPhil](#):
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> aarch64

Unfortunately, not many AppImages are available for this architecture yet.

I general, AppImages can run if there is FUSE set up correctly on the system. To test this, just try running an AppImage from [Release Continuous build · AppImage/AppImageKit · GitHub](https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/releases/tag/continuous).

Whether _a specific_ AppImage runs on that system, however, depends on what the author of that particular AppImage has put inside the AppImage.

We test to make sure that the AppImages on [https://appimage.github.io/](https://appimage.github.io/) work on the oldest still-supported Ubuntu LTS release on x86\_64.

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**Author:** ![yPhil](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/discourse.appimage.org/yphil/32/502_2.png) [@yPhil](https://discourse.appimage.org/u/yPhil)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2021, 2:52pm UTC](https://discourse.appimage.org/t/does-my-this-distro-support-appimage/2235/3 "2021-01-30T14:52:23Z")

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Thank you very much for your answer (and for AppImage) ; I’ll investigate further if I can run this on an Arm machine.

On a not totally unrelated note, I needed to write in a config file inside of an AppImage executable, and found the [extract / edit / rebuild procedure](https://gitlab.com/librewolf-community/browser/linux/-/issues/154#note_492112963) a real joy! Man, AppImage is a thing of functional beauty.