AppImages don't work on Ubuntu 26.04

[alexb3d]

None of them worked, so I installed Fuse and JRommanager worked. These ones don't, and I haven't tried any others yet.
I understand that I'm missing libjack.so.0 and libOpenGL.so.0.

My question is, is this going to be the case forever? Is there a way to install these dependencies, or for them to install automatically?

lex@home:~$ '/home/lex/.apps/games/RetroArch-Nightly/RetroArch-Linux-x86_64/RetroArch-Linux-x86_64.AppImage' 
Setting $HOME to /home/lex/.apps/games/RetroArch-Nightly/RetroArch-Linux-x86_64/RetroArch-Linux-x86_64.AppImage.home
/tmp/.mount_RetroAFCmjmb/AppRun.wrapped: error while loading shared libraries: libjack.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

lex@home:~$ '/home/lex/.apps/games/pcsx2/pcsx2-v2.6.3-linux-appimage-x64-Qt.AppImage' 
Setting $HOME to /home/lex/.apps/games/pcsx2/pcsx2-v2.6.3-linux-appimage-x64-Qt.AppImage.home
/home/lex/.apps/games/pcsx2/pcsx2-v2.6.3-linux-appimage-x64-Qt.AppImage: error while loading shared libraries: libOpenGL.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

lex@home:~$ '/home/lex/.apps/on-line/qBittorrent.AppImage' 
/tmp/.mount_qBittocoBMge/AppRun.wrapped: error while loading shared libraries: libOpenGL.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[TheAssassin]

That's more of an issue of your system. You need to install libjack and a graphics driver (e.g., mesa).

[alexb3d]

Mesa is installed by default. My GPU is an AMD, with the Caicos driver. I haven't installed mesa-utils, although I'm not sure if it will work—I had already installed the dependencies.

You need to install certain dependencies to run (at least) these AppImages; I haven't tried it with design software yet.
sudo apt install libfuse2 libopengl0 libjack0

My question is, will I have to do this for every app?
Isn't there a way to automate this?

[TheAssassin]

Not needed for every app, but for these specifically, yes. libfuse2 is still a dependency of most older AppImages, newer ones should ship with a runtime that no longer needs it. The other libs are required by the apps in the AppImages.

[MichaelTunnell]

@alexb3d no, you will not need to do this for every AppImage. The problem is AppImage is based on FUSE2 and the ecosystem has moved onto FUSE3 but AppImage is still on the old version so every AppImage needs FUSE2 to be installed. Most distros are getting rid of FUSE2 because it is no longer maintained by anyone. I don't know why AppImages still depend on it after years of this. OMG Ubuntu wrote an article about this a few years ago if you want to learn more. https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/04/appimages-libfuse2-ubuntu-23-04

[TheAssassin]

Please be careful about spreading misinformation. Newer AppImage tooling has shipped for years with a statically linked runtime which does no longer need a libfuse2/3 to be installed on the host (FUSE is still a dependency in general, though). That article is very outdated.

[alexb3d]

So, I understand that RetroArch was built using a very old AppImage tool. Is that why it requires fuse2 and libopengl0?