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# rancher-desktop
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@curved-oil-5381 Hi, so AlmaLinux doesn't provide qemu packages? If /usr/local/bin is in your path, all should be good
which qemu-system-x86_64
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They do, they just have put them in /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm instead.
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@curved-oil-5381 You don't have to add your user to a qemu group or similar? On Tumbleweed (same kernel as you) all is good. Perhaps still missing some of the qemu ovmf packages?
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Which package format did you use to install Rancher Desktop? This sounds like you used the rpm, which is only supported on SUSE-based distros. On RHEL-based distros, the AppImage must be used
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@bored-farmer-36655 Well, if it helps I can do that. I have edk2-ovmf.noarch installed.
@jolly-forest-99711 unzipped the zip and run ./rancher-desktop... Okey, I see. Thanks.
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As in you downloaded it from the github release? That is definitely not the way to do it πŸ™‚ You might find the Linux installation docs helpful
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Yes πŸ™‚ I see now that it says "To use Rancher Desktop on these distributions, please use the AppImage." but it wasnt that obvious. Also, I have never hard of AppImage. I guess its like snap but maybe better? πŸ™‚
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Oh, AppImage is basically a static binary. No magic here πŸ™‚
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Yeah it's a handy package format (and interesting if you dig into how it works). It serves the same purpose as snap/flatpak, but without the sandboxing, which would make many things Rancher Desktop does infeasible
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I see. Now it worked just fine πŸ˜€ Thanks everyone for the help.
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