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I am currently referring to the Obsidian note taking app. (see www.obsidian.md).

The Obsidian AppImage did not work for me. Ubuntu Software Center just could not open it. Same goes for the Snap or Flatpak package.

Anything I did wrong besides just trying to open the files and launching die Ubuntu Software Center?

Edit: If there are suggestions to make it work with snap, they are welcome. If I find the answer to that option as well I will post it here.

Software version and Ubuntu version are as mentioned in the title.

iguanahay
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    "The Obsidian AppImage did not work for me" is vague. Try https://askubuntu.com/questions/774490/what-is-an-appimage-how-do-i-install-it . If it fails, tell us exactly which step failed and provide complete output. – user535733 Nov 09 '22 at 18:58
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    Thanks for the hint. I just doubleclicked the file and nothing happened. That permissions have to be changed was unknown to me and I just needed to get the software running on my system. With the next chance I will test the Appimage again. – iguanahay Nov 10 '22 at 20:10
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    Used Appimage for a different software and worked like a charm. Wish I knew it before and (from a user perspective) that more packages used the format. – iguanahay Jan 31 '23 at 13:20
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    Keep in mind that AppImages don't get updates or security patches. When you install an AppImage, that becomes your responsibility. – user535733 Jan 31 '23 at 13:29
  • Is it OK if we make this question more general to all Ubuntu versions, and not just 22.04? – Flimm Feb 01 '23 at 09:01

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There is a Snap version of Obsidian now:

Get it from the Snap Store

If you prefer using the command line, you can run this command:

sudo snap install obsidian --classic

This snap version of Obsidian is not sandboxed, which is why the --classic flag needs to be passed.

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I dived into the Terminal and installed Flatpak.

  1. Install flatpak sudo apt install flatpak
  2. Check version to make sure it is installed flatpak --version
  3. Enable Flathub to search apps from command line flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
  4. Search is done by flatpak search <app_name>
  5. Check the Application ID and run the installation with the application ID. I found it easier than choosing the right name. flatpak install <app-id>

Then I went on to look for Obsidian from Flathub.

  1. Search Obsidian: flatpak search obsidian
  2. Look for md.obsidian.Obsidian application ID flatpak install md.obsidian.Obsidian

After system restart Obsidian showed up in the application launcher.

DONE.

NOTE: Obsidian only works with locally available files. e.g. GoogleDrive via Gnome Online Accounts only offers access to the cloud service without actually downloading the files locally.

iguanahay
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use chmod +x "filename.appimage" to get it executable first mate :)

Philiplima
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I am still using ubuntu 20.04 and installed obsidian through snap and it stared crashing this is how I manually updated it

$ sudo snap download obsidian
Fetching snap "obsidian"
Fetching assertions for "obsidian"
Install the snap with:
   snap ack obsidian_22.assert
   snap install obsidian_22.snap
sudo snap install --dangerous --classic obsidian_22.snap
obsidian 1.5.3 installed

That's how I recovered it back. Sharing maybe it could help someone.

Usman Ali Maan
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Obsidian provides deb package now from their github repo.

Here is a link to obsidian_1.5.8_amd64.deb

(Make sure you download the latest version if you are reading this answer at a later date)

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