Installing AppImage for Fritzing 1.0.2

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Do not know if this is the right place to ask an installing software question so moderator feel free to move it to the right thread.
I want to download (and pay for) the latest fritzing software but hesitate to do so because:

  1. I am running a linux O.S. other than Ubuntu : PCLinuxOS.
  2. Extra software must be downloaded and installed : libfuse2 but I do not know if all linux O.S. systems have to use this or just Ubuntu.
    When I hoovering over “apt install libfuse2” with my mouse I notice that that link is dead.
    Can somebody please give me some more info about this?
    Thanks in advance. Joe.
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Hi,

FUSE is a requirement for AppImages (more technical details here: FUSE · AppImage/AppImageKit Wiki · GitHub).

However, if you can’t install FUSE, you can start it using the --appimage-extract-and-run parameter. For the current version 1.0.2, this would look like this:

./fritzing-1.0.2-l1901-dbdbe34c-qt6.AppImage --appimage-extract-and-run

Alternatively, you can extract the AppImage using:

./fritzing-1.0.2-l1901-dbdbe34c-qt6.AppImage --appimage-extract

and then run the start script in the generated squashfs-root folder:

cd squashfs-root
./AppRun

I haven’t tested this with PCLinuxOS, but in theory it should work.

Greetings,
Josh