I want to install Joplin on my Linux Mint. I downloaded the Joplin 3.3.10 app image and now want to install the program according to the installation script on the Joplin app website. I've tried several times, but it doesn't work. I've attached an image with the corresponding error message in the terminal. Can anyone help me or give me a tip? Please help for dummies; I'm not a Linux power user and don't know much about it. Thanks.
If this problem has already been discussed and solved here in the forum, please let me know where. Thanks.
Just thought I would point out that you do not have to download the AppImage and run the script. The script will download the latest full release version when you use it to initially install Joplin. It will also create a menu item with an icon.
The same script is also used to upgrade Joplin when a newer version is released. It will replace the AppImage with the newer one but it will not affect your note data.
That is a lot of information but it looks like @Marph found what was going wrong for the original poster. Also it seems a rather complicated procedure for a person who said of themselves, "Please help for dummies; I'm not a Linux power user and don't know much about it." If they do what they intended to do and use the script it will download the latest AppImage and set everything up for them.
In your usage case, if you were to use the script it would download the AppImage into ~/.joplin as Joplin.AppImage (removes the version number). The version is recorded in a separate VERSION file in that folder. The script creates a .desktop file named "Joplin" for the application launcher pointing at ~/.joplin/Joplin.AppImage (no version number) and an icon. It also adds environment variables and command arguments.
In Kubuntu you can search for and select this "Joplin" entry to autostart. There's no version number so you only ever have to do it once, not every time you upgrade. All previous AppImages are available on GitHub.
Thank you all. A quick note: I'm 70 now and still enjoy playing around with computers, but I never learned how. My English is good enough to keep me from starving and dying of thirst, but for the technical stuff here, I need the help of Google Translate. Hence the request for help for dummies. Joplin works fine on Windows, but Linux just doesn't seem to want it.
I've now tried starting Joplin from the app image in Linux, but of course that didn't work; your detailed instructions from Kubuntu didn't help either. Thanks anyway, Steph.
I then tried again with the script, this time with -O (letter) after wget, but it didn't work again, this time with a different error message, see photo.
I'm curious to see if it still works, if I can use Joplin on Linux, or do I need to find another note-taking app?
The errors are in German so it's hard to help. Just a suggestion - when sharing some error, copy and paste it as text here, so that we can at least translate it (here I'd have to OCR your image, then translate.
Edit: Well actually I see it now - you used the domain "raww.githubusercontent.com" which is incorrect, it should be "raw.githubusercontent.com". Likewise - copy and paste the code from the website rather than typing it to avoid any error
Hello laurent, this error i found myself and corrected it, and I got a new Error Code. I can't use copy and past because i write this on my Windows PC, the Error is in my Linux.
So i try to write the Error Code here:
First Line: wget -o - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/laurent22/joplin/dev/Joplin_install_and_update.sh | bash
Second Line: --2025-05-04: Befehl nicht gefunden
Third Line: Syntaxfehler beim unerwarteten Word >>(<<
Fourth Line: Auflösen des Hostnamens raw.githubusercontent.com (raw.githubusercontent.com) - 185.199.108.133, 185.199.109.133, 185.199.110.133, ...
This is the Text of the Error, you can see it on the Photo.
It needs to be -O (the letter "O", and capitalised). I would suggest just to copy the command from https://joplinapp.org/help/install/#desktop-applications, and then paste it into your terminal (which usually can be done with Ctrl+Shift+V) without any manual typing involved.
I happened to install Joplin on Linux Mint yesterday to test Joplin on Linux. I also had an issue with the wget script not working (I copy and pasted the command from the website).
However I had success by downloading the AppImage from the Joplin download page. Then I just doubled clicked the AppImage in the file manager. Initially it did nothing, but after increasing permissions on it with chmod, it ran without issues
Hi Laurent,
This is getting exciting.
I've now written the script into the terminal as you suggested, first from wget -O (capital letter) to _and_update.sh.
The system wrote a lot there.
Then I wrote the second part, bash - Joplin_install-and_update.sh, and I got the error message again:
bash - Joplin_install-and_update.sh File or directory not found???
The complete text from Linux Terminal you will find on the .odt (7 Pages !) Joplin Install Script.odt (38.4 KB)
@ mrjo118: I think, this will be the next thing to test, where is in Linux Mint the File Manager ?
There are 3 versions of Linux MINT : Cinnamon, Xfce and Mate.
Do you know which one you use ?
Nemo is the official file manager for the Cinnamon desktop.
Caja is the official file manager for the MATE desktop.
Thunar is the official file manager for the Xfce desktop.
An AppImage in itself doesn't need installation (https://appimage.org/). So if you put your appimage on your desktop at the download time it will work. But you can use your file manager to put the appimage elsewhere and start from there...
mrjo118 did it with MINT (Can't install Joplin in Linux - #13 by mrjo118)... So it should be possible for you too. Keep the faith !
Anyway, linux MINT is not the only LINUX user friendly. Linux is UBUNTU based. So you can try UBUNTU or KUBUNTU (my choice), similar to MINT if there's really something not possible at the moment on your computer.
You will never find a better note-taking app than JOPLIN...
