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I'm currently running Alpine Linux with XFCE. When I try to run an executable, in this case the "Tox" app .appimage file, like this

./qTox-v1.16.3.x86_64.AppImage

It returns this error

bash: ./qTox-v1.16.3.x86_64.AppImage: No such file or directory

despite the fact that the file exists and is in the directory that I'm in. What is going on here?

Chris Davies
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    Are you on an x86-64 system? Try strace on it – muru Nov 02 '19 at 02:05
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    Maybe related: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/282642/117549 – Jeff Schaller Nov 02 '19 at 02:33
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    What do file qTox-v1.16.3.x86_64.AppImage and ls -ld qTox-v1.16.3.x86_64.AppImage tell you? – Chris Davies Nov 03 '19 at 12:40
  • That's because it cannot find its ELF interpreter. Run readelf -a qTox-v1.16.3.x86_64.AppImage | grep interpreter. If I'm not mistaken, Alpine Linux is based on the musl library (where the C library is the interpreter), and that program is probably linked against glibc (the GNU C library). I have no idea how that could work, other than installing glibc with its entire suite (including its dynamic linker / interpreter) one way or another. But I haven't any Alpine Linux to try on. –  Nov 12 '19 at 23:20
  • I'm having the same problem. I had an app compiled and running on my 32 bit raspbian, and when I copied it to a 64 bit raspbian and set all the rights and permissions, I get exactly the error you describe. There are libraries I did not download the second time that I thought were only needed to compile, I'll work with it more tonoght, I just wanted you to know I've seen this error too. – DavesPlanet Feb 02 '23 at 17:49
  • update: installing all build tools and recompiling from source worked perfectly, going back to the original files still does not work. – DavesPlanet Feb 02 '23 at 18:15

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