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A discussion on the "chmod +x" - #2 by probono - Developers - AppImage

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I told my coworker that in order to run an app, he needs to download it, chmod +x it, and just run it. I completely lost him on “see ech mod plus ex”. I gave another my Ubuntu laptop and asked him to download and run my…

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There are easy ways around this, like using the GUI or setting up the optional appimaged daemon. I think it is sufficient if this is mentioned on the download page. This being said, there would be very easy methods to make every ELF file executable automatically, but that would be removing a security feature.

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