How to instal Obsidian on a Linux System

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Hi, I downloaded ‘Obsidian-0.8.0.AppImage’ on my newly instaled linux (Pop!OS) system.
Is there a tutorial how to instal Obsidian? Sorry, but I didn’t find instructions in the FAQ section.
Thank you in advance for your effort!

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It’s like any other appimage nothing special, just give it execute permission and then click on it

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Thank you for you quick answer! Sorry to be so uniformed but how can I do this?

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Depends on the OS but iirc POP is ubuntu based? usually right click -> properties -> Permissions -> Allow executing or in the command line

cd folder/where/its/downloaded/
chmod ug+x obsidian-xxx.appimage
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Cool, thank your! That worked! Can I move the appimage to another place (if I want to)?

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Yes. AppImages can be moved anywhere you like! I moved from macOS to Linux, so I keep mine in an Applications directory in my home directory to mimic macOS.

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Hi, I think I have a problem executing my AppImage. I’m new to Debian so I’m not sure what am I missing.

When I make the file an executable and double click, nothing happens. When I run in it in the terminal (by ./Obsidian-0.8.4.AppImage), it returns the following error.

[810:0822/110317.866632:FATAL:setuid_sandbox_host.cc(157)] The SUID
sandbox helper binary was found, but is not configured correctly.
Rather than run without sandboxing I'm aborting now. You need to make
sure that /tmp/.mount_ObsidifH9RAE/chrome-sandbox is owned by root
and has mode 4755.
[1]    810 trace trap  ./Obsidian-0.8.4.AppImage

I’d really appreciate if someone could guide me in the proper direction. TIA!

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Seems like a solution was found by Rhongo#1881 on discord:

So running with --appimage-extract and manual chowning chrome-sandbox to root:root and chmod to 4755 fixes the issue

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I have tried executing .appimage on Puppy linux, but it just doesn’t work. Please look into this.

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I had the same issue with Debian 10 today.

Error message read: [15783:1020/171730.403455:FATAL:setuid_sandbox_host.cc(158)] The SUID sandbox helper binary was found, but is not configured correctly. Rather than run without sandboxing I’m aborting now. You need to make sure that /tmp/.mount_Obsidi2tjJk5/chrome-sandbox is owned by root and has mode 4755.

I verified the setting on chrome-sandbox, 4755 and the --appimage-extract failed, invoking components but no app.

Solution: Try /.Obsidian-0.9.4.AppImage --no-sandbox

Worked for me.

Maintainers: I’m guessing its the invocation of chrome-sandbox and not its permissions that is the source of failure here. The interface appears to be working properly, so far as I can tell.

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Hi there,
I am using Terminal on Chromebook with no Linux knowledge.
My file is in the Linux file however despite following the commands given it says it cannot execute binary file. I even found youtube clip saying to write sudo chmod a+x Obsidian-0.9.6.AppImage which did not appear to work.
I read that ACER is 32bit, could this be the problem?
Any suggestions please? Right click also does not work to enable permissions.
Cheers