Appimages are available for some popular KDE applications

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Stevo
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Appimages are available for some popular KDE applications

#1 Post by Stevo »

Namely, the latest KDE 5 versions of Digikam 375(!) MB, Kdenlive (68 MB), and Krita (77 MB). This is a end run around the need to backport KDE 5, though they take up much more disk space. They are more like self-contained portable Windows applications instead of our tightly integrated repository applications.

The latest Kdenlive video editor is getting a lot of good reviews, and can be downloaded here: http://files.kde.org/kdenlive/release/K ... mirrorlist

I'm think the last two are 64-bit only. Digikam has a new database format, so you should backup your KDE 4 version's folder in your home folder before testing the appimage.

Appimages require that they be made executable before they can be run, which is simple to set in Thunar or Dolphin by right-clicking the file and then Properties/Permissions--->checkbox.

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Re: Appimages are available for some popular KDE applications

#2 Post by asqwerth »

That's really cool. I installed the krita one just for fun although I generally don't use photo managers, art programs or video editors.

Questions:
1. How do I create a .desktop file? I couldn't figure out what command to include in the Exec= entry. The appimage file is in a home subfolder and l added a symlink to desktop but I like my desktop clean.

2. Where can I point to to use the krita icon (appears in the appimage file next to file name) for the Icon= entry?

[NEVER MIND. I just had to remove some entries from the template I was using, which included some MATE stuff.

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[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Exec=/home/testmx15/AppImages/krita-3.1.1-x86_64.appimage
Icon=krita
Hidden=false
Name[en_US]=krita
Name=krita
Comment[en_US]=
Comment=
Categories=Graphics;
]
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Re: Appimages are available for some popular KDE applications

#3 Post by dolphin_oracle »

couldn't run the kdenlive one. heres some terminal output.

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 ./Kdenlive-16.12.1-x86_64.AppImage 
kdenlive: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQtDBus.so.4: undefined symbol: dbus_connection_can_send_type
any thoughts?
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#4 Post by m_pav »

Tried kdenlive, failed to start, repeated by using the terminal, got this response

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michael@T560-Laptop:~/Downloads
$ ./Kdenlive-16.12.1-x86_64.AppImage 
kdenlive: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQtDBus.so.4: undefined symbol: dbus_connection_can_send_type
I have libqtdbus4 installed, so I wonder if there's a version conflict happening.

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$ apt-cache policy libqtdbus4
libqtdbus4:
  Installed: 4:4.8.6+git64-g5dc8b2b+dfsg-3+deb8u1
  Candidate: 4:4.8.6+git64-g5dc8b2b+dfsg-3+deb8u1
  Version table:
 *** 4:4.8.6+git64-g5dc8b2b+dfsg-3+deb8u1 0
        500 http://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
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Re: Appimages are available for some popular KDE applications

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Yes, that's weird, especially since it's supposed to have included its own version of Qt 5.7, and shouldn't have anything to do with Qt 4. I bet the appimage is missing essential parts.

I found a slightly older appimage here which is over twice the download size at 145 MB--16.12~rc, so maybe this version isn't missing any libraries; I'll test it: http://download.kde.org/unstable/kdenlive/16.12/linux/

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#6 Post by Stevo »

I tried the latest appimage a couple weeks ago--it started up the GUI, but locked up (QT 5 library error showing in the terminal) when I attempted to load a clip.

I see there's yet another one as of the 10th; let's see what happens with that.

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#7 Post by dolphin_oracle »

Stevo wrote:I tried the latest appimage a couple weeks ago--it started up the GUI, but locked up (QT 5 library error showing in the terminal) when I attempted to load a clip.

I see there's yet another one as of the 10th; let's see what happens with that.

just saw a video with kdenlive 16+ running under windows!
http://www.youtube.com/runwiththedolphin
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