APPRUN_WARNING: Unable to find interpreter; Unable to read file: about appimage-builder HOT 10 CLOSED

This issue is produced when you run the appimage-builder twice over the same AppDir without redeploying all the binaries. You need to wipe out or redeploy all the binaries in AppDir before running appimage-builder.

Long description:
appimage-builder uses patchelf to change the PT_INTERP path in the elf executable, and uses the existent value to discover which interpreter the executable requires. If you run appimage-builder twice it will think that the required interpreter is the "pointer" one which causes the malfunction you're seeing.

ref #44

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What do you mean under "redeploy"?
It seems i don't run appimage-builder twice

My Dockerfile:

FROM ubuntu:bionic
WORKDIR /home
COPY main main
COPY libfile.so libfile.so
RUN apt update
RUN apt install -y neovim git cmake build-essential qtbase5-dev qtdeclarative5-dev python3-pip python3-setuptools patchelf desktop-file-utils libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev fakeroot
RUN pip3 install --upgrade pip && pip3 install appimage-builder
COPY AppImageBuilder.yml .
RUN apt install wget
RUN wget https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/releases/download/continuous/appimagetool-x86_64.AppImage -O /opt/appimagetool && \
    chmod +x /opt/appimagetool && \
    cd /opt/ && \
    /opt/appimagetool --appimage-extract && \
    mv /opt/squashfs-root /opt/appimagetool.AppDir && \
    ln -s /opt/appimagetool.AppDir/AppRun /usr/local/bin/appimagetool
RUN appimage-builder --skip-tests

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By "redeploy" I mean to run appimage-builder two or more times over the same AppDir. You need to rm -rf AppDir before running appimage-builder. Then you install things there, check out the link below:

https://github.com/AppImageCrafters/appimage-builder/blob/master/examples/pyqt5/AppImageBuilder.yml#L3

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By the way you can also use https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/appimagecrafters/appimage-builder for your builds

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@azubieta wait, if i rm -rf AppDir, then how do I specify which file is executable and which are shared libraries, etc?

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@xahon the idea is to start fresh every time, because appimage-builder modifies the AppDir contents and also uses the same data to do the modifications. You can do something like this:

# erase the AppDir
rm -rf ./AppDir

# deploy everything again 
make install DESTDIR=AppDir
cp my_file.so AppDir/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/

# run appimage-builder, tests don't work inside docker
appimage-builder  --skip-test

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Warning has disappeared but "Unable to read file: ...so" is still showing up

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Warning has disappeared but "Unable to read file: ...so" is still showing up

That's weird, could you please post the whole log?
It would be useful if you could share your AppImageBuilder.yml file too.

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HIDDEN OUTPUT

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Also please share the full error log. If you want we could communicate faster on the appimage irc channel at freenode.org

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