Pcloud appimage not installing

Issues & Assistance
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Just installed on an external drive to explore as possible new daily driver. Am not a power user.
For some reason the pcloud appimage they supply which has worked on every other distro I’ve tried over the years does nothing-nada-zip for me now.

First, I copied a recent file from a HD and placed it in Home folder. Made it executable. Nothing happened. Then I downloaded a fresh copy in the Home/Downloads folder. The new one didn’t work either. Then I deleted the first file in the Home Folder. That is all I have done.

Any ideas? Is this some sort of security feature?

BTW, I like Cachy so far. It feels faster and more silent under the hood somehow

Unnecessary addendum: have been running Manjaro for years, recently cleaned up cache etc. and it’s better, but it’s always a little glitchy and with a second laptop coming I thought might be good to experiment a little. Thus far I think I like this very much - Gnome, but plan to play with other desktops later.

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Have you tried pcloud from the AUR? (working for me)

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I didn’t yet see how to access AUR. In Manjaro its in the GUI and i can search for what’s available. Not sure how to do that in Cachy yet.

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Two things: aur.archlinux.org, <aur helper of your choice> -Ss pcloud

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does an aur helper come with the basic install. yay doesn’t work. is there another already there?

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I use paru, don’t remember if it’s preloaded or not.

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yes it is, I found it. Now I’ll have to figure out how to get it to install the file from the Home Directory. Thanks.

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My point being (without saying it)…it’s probably best to use the most ‘native’ packaging instead of ‘random’ downloads that don’t get updated/etc.

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Thanks to Brave’s AI assistant, I found out that I just had to run the Appimage in the Terminal, however to do that had also to install FUSE. Then it worked fine.

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If you used paru or yay, it would have done what was necessary to run it (I guess in this case installed FUSE).
You’re making it harder on yourself, though learning what it takes is not wasted knowledge :wink:

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One day I hope there are distros with built-in AI assistants so you can ask them to fine-tune, solve problems, write custom scripts, tweak the kernels, whatever.
Thanks for your help

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I tried paru many times and it wouldn’t take. I guess I had to find a file in AUR or something. Just running the file I already had was simple, although it was only when I tried to do it in the Terminal that I got helpful error messages. From Files it was just nothing happening. Usually you just click on the file and it runs. This was the first time I encountered this issue with it. Apparently because FUSE did not come pre-installed. This is what the Terminal message told me but the GUI didn’t. All’s well that ends well.

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should just have been ‘paru -Syu pcloud-drive’ and hit enter.
Yep, that’s exactly why arch based distros are terminal based…

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I did that, but then it just output:
aur/pcloud-drive 1.14.9-1 [+84 ~0.98]
pCloud drive. Electron edition.

And nothing else happened. Was I supposed to do something else?

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-Ss is essentially a search, to install you need to pass -S.

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You’d still need to run it…however, it would be installed and updated from the AUR after that.
This completes a very very basic lesson in Arching.

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