How to install Viber appimage?

[redandwhitestripes]

Hi guys, running my faithful bionicpup64.

Tried to install the ubuntu version of Viber from the official Viber site, and simply can't get anything, not even an error message. I can see from PPM that is is installed and the icon appears on the menu, but nothing else happens.

So I tried the appimage from the official site and again no joy. When trying from the command line I get:

QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set, defaulting to '/initrd/mnt/tmpfs/tmp/runtime-root'
[7094:7094:1203/192614.594412:ERROR:zygote_host_impl_linux.cc(89)] Running as root without --no-sandbox is not supported. See https://crbug.com/638180.

This happens even when I add the --no-sandbox parameter.

Can anyone help me get Viber running? Much appreciated.

[rockedge]

In a terminal Try:

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run-as-spot viber

The trick here being running Viber as the user "spot".
another variation:

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sudo -u spot viber 

[redandwhitestripes]

Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately it hits me with...

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run-as-spot ./viber.appimage 
fusermount: mount failed: Operation not permitted

Cannot mount AppImage, please check your FUSE setup.
You might still be able to extract the contents of this AppImage 
if you run it with the --appimage-extract option. 
See https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/wiki/FUSE 
for more information
open dir error: No such file or directory

[mikeslr]

I would have pointed to the post where Mike Walsh discussed this but I can't find it. And I don't know if it will work. But in order to run the Leonflix.AppImage, he created a bash-script/launcher. The recipe, modified for Viper, would be:

#!/bin/sh
#
# Start 'Viper.' AppImage
#
/PATH-TO-APPIMAGE/Viper.AppImage --no-sandbox

If that doesn't work, try extracting the AppImage: Right-Click>UExtract. Download one of Mike Walsh's portable-Chromium-Clones, and see how he structures them, e.g. viewtopic.php?f=90&t=771. You may be able to rebuild Viper the same way.

@ rockedge, please consider making viewtopic.php?p=837#p837 "a Sticky". Although this thread started by redandwhitestripes might more appropriately belong in the Browser and Internet Section (Viper is a messenger application) it serves a useful purpose here as it reveals different methods for working with AppImages.

[dancytron]

I think there needs to be a section for these Chrome based "Elements" applications. There seem to be a lot of them already and as app-images they work very well with Puppy/Dogs if you know the tricks to make them run are exactly the same as Chrome.