# Hi and some questions

**URL:** <https://discourse.appimage.org/t/hi-and-some-questions/1412>\
**Category:** Using AppImages\
**Created:** [September 8, 2019, 4:05pm UTC](https://discourse.appimage.org/t/hi-and-some-questions/1412 "2019-09-08T16:05:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![rmlazzari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@rmlazzari](https://discourse.appimage.org/u/rmlazzari)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2019, 4:05pm UTC](https://discourse.appimage.org/t/hi-and-some-questions/1412/1 "2019-09-08T16:05:54Z")

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Hi, first of all, please excuse my not-too-good english and if my questions are too basic, primarily. I’m new with Linux (but not too new in age) so I have some questions about using AppImage:

1 - When I entered first time this site I saw some videos explaining how to install and use AppImage files but now I’m not find them anymore. I’m not sure it was a topic (or thread) or some kind of welcome page. Could you help me to find that again so I could take notes in the old fashion way: pen and paper?

2 - As far as I understood, programs wrote in AppImage format don’t be installed. Sometimes I’m far from the city, in a country side little house, so I don’t have Internet access. Can I use them if I’m not connected to Internet?

If it helps, the programs I intend to install are Inviska Mediainfo and Inviska MKV extract.

Thank you in advance

Renato M. Lazzari

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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:** [September 15, 2019, 1:03pm UTC](https://discourse.appimage.org/t/hi-and-some-questions/1412/2 "2019-09-15T13:03:20Z")

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Hi and welcome to AppImage. Glad you are here!

> [@rmlazzari](#):
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> 1 - When I entered first time this site I saw some videos explaining how to install and use AppImage files but now I’m not find them anymore. I’m not sure it was a topic (or thread) or some kind of welcome page. Could you help me to find that again so I could take notes in the old fashion way: pen and paper?

This is the short version:

> [@How to run an AppImage](https://discourse.appimage.org/t/how-to-run-an-appimage/80):
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> 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: 1. With the GUI Open your file manager and browse to the location of the AppImage Right-click on the AppImage and click the ‘Properties’ entry Switch to the Permissions tab and Click the ‘Allow executing file as program’ checkbox if you are using a Nautilus-based file manager (Files, Nemo, Caja), or click the ‘Is executable’ checkbox if yo…

Here is the full documentation:

[https://docs.appimage.org/user-guide/run-appimages.html](https://docs.appimage.org/user-guide/run-appimages.html)

> [@rmlazzari](#):
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> 2 - As far as I understood, programs wrote in AppImage format don’t be installed. Sometimes I’m far from the city, in a country side little house, so I don’t have Internet access. Can I use them if I’m not connected to Internet?

Yes!