# Help with pkg2appimage

**URL:** <https://discourse.appimage.org/t/help-with-pkg2appimage/1739>\
**Category:** Creating AppImages\
**Created:** [June 23, 2020, 3:16pm UTC](https://discourse.appimage.org/t/help-with-pkg2appimage/1739 "2020-06-23T15:16:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![emmanuelncb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/2bfe46/32.png) [@emmanuelncb](https://discourse.appimage.org/u/emmanuelncb)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 3:16pm UTC](https://discourse.appimage.org/t/help-with-pkg2appimage/1739/1 "2020-06-23T15:16:30Z")

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Hi, i am studying code of pkg2appimage, but, i had some problems to reproduce the AppDir creating. I managed download dependencies, extract packages with dpkg-deb, but, when i tried create AppDir its don’t run. 😥

**For create AppDir i tried:**

1. glib-compile-schemas
2. move /libs to usr/libs
3. execute path\_usr function

I am trying create a appimage of lxterminal and congratulations this in ubuntu with pkg2appimage, but, with the same deb packages, apprun, icon and .desktop don’t have success… i am 5 days trying but have the “undefined symbol” problem with cairo lib… My question is: **What is missing?** 🤔

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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:** [June 27, 2020, 9:02am UTC](https://discourse.appimage.org/t/help-with-pkg2appimage/1739/2 "2020-06-27T09:02:39Z")

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Hi @emmanuelncb and welcome to AppImage. Please ask the author of lxterminal to provide an officially-supported AppImage of lxterminal.

pkg2appimage is really just a relatively hackish tool and a last-resort way of making AppImages if the original author refuses to do it.