[digiKam-users] Cannot start recent appimage on Manjaro

[Gilles Caulier]

No $(arch) is a system variable used to share the current architecture
: 32 or 64 bits for ex...

https://superuser.com/questions/471645/issue-with-arch-variable

Gilles Caulier

Le sam. 21 mars 2020 à 12:23, Hans-Peter Huth <hans-ph at web.de> a écrit :
>
> On Sat, 21 Mar 2020 11:52:20 -0400
> Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Le sam. 21 mars 2020 à 11:42, Hans-Peter Huth
> > <hans-ph at web.de> a écrit :
> > >
> > > On Sat, 21 Mar 2020 14:37:45 +0100
> > > leoutation at gmx.fr wrote:
> > >
> > > > On 3/21/20 11:01 AM, Hans-Peter Huth wrote:
> > > > > On Sat, 21 Mar 2020 07:12:27 +0100
> > > > > Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin at gmail.com>
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > >> First of all, the "arch" command does not exist in your system. In
> > > > >> my distribution this command is part of the "coreutils".
> > > > >>
> > > ...
> > > >
> > > > In Arch distribution (and Arch derived distro like manjaro), only one
> > > > "arch" command: "tla"
> > > > https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/arch/
> > > >
> > > Yes, i have seen this. But the Appimage script tries to start 'arch'
> >
> > No. Look script code here :
> >
> > https://invent.kde.org/kde/digikam/-/blob/master/project/bundles/appimage/data/AppRun
> >
> > Gilles Caulier
> >
>
> Hmm, my script knowledge is a bit old. Line 16: "if [[ "$(arch)" =
> "x86_64" ]] ; then"
> So it tries to start the command 'arch' in a subshell, correct?
>
> Anyway, even with my replacement script, the appimage doesn't start,
> "...
> digikam-7.0.0-beta1-20191221T113643-x86-64.appimage
> ..." (see previous mail).
>
> As said, old appimages do run fine.
>
> HP
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