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Hello

I'm using Joplin since a few years, changing various appimages over time.

It works, but starting the appimage from terminal gives a few errors and also no updates happen when I upgrade Debian.

So now I am trying to install it in Qubes/ Debian using the offical way:
wget -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/laurent22/joplin/dev/Joplin_install_and_update.sh | bash

which seems to promise updates. May you explain how updates work, or direct me where updates are explained?

This command seems to work without errors, but how can I start the program? On Desktop there is no link to start it and running "joplin" or "Joplin" in terminal, gives that the command is not found.
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It just replaces the old appimage with the new appimage.

That command is for launching the terminal app if you install it

What errors do you get when you launch the appimage from the terminal? The script will install it to ~/.joplin.

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Many thanks fore replying my friend.

So you mean that every time you run the above command the following happens?

It just replaces the old appimage with the new appimage.

So is there no way to install Joplin in Debian so that it gets updated with the standard apt upgrade?

What errors do you get when you launch the appimage from the terminal? The script will install it to ~/.joplin.

user@per-dec:~/.joplin$ ./Joplin.AppImage 
xdg-settings: invalid application name
Try 'xdg-settings --help' for more information.
libva error: vaGetDriverNameByIndex() failed with unknown libva error, driver_name = (null)
[13550:0824/160402.468553:ERROR:viz_main_impl.cc(162)] Exiting GPU process due to errors during initialization
(node:13510) electron: The default of nativeWindowOpen is deprecated and will be changing from false to true in Electron 15.  See https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/28511 for more information.
(Use `@joplinapp-desktop --trace-warnings ...` to show where the warning was created)
[13575:0824/160402.566975:ERROR:gpu_init.cc(441)] Passthrough is not supported, GL is swiftshader

But except some sync problems with the cell phone Joplin, relating to some notes that are no synced for some reasons, it generally works well.

So, after many years of wonderful work with Joplin, I am just trying to understand if these is a better way to install it, to avoid the above errors, to keep the application more updated and perhaps solve the casual sync problems. But I am happy with it, I am even regularly sending money to the developers.

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Only if there is an update for it to find, if not then it won't do anything. You can open the script and see for yourself if you want.

No, it is a standalone appimage so it isn't anything to do with apt or dpkg unless somebody makes and maintains their own PPA or other source for it as a .deb.

You can turn on update checking in the options which will find updates and prompt you on new releases.

libva error: vaGetDriverNameByIndex() failed with unknown libva error, driver_name = (null)

It seems this is some kind of graphics driver error? Do you have issues with other electron apps? (Discord, Mailspring, Atom, VSCode etc?)

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I do not use any other electron app, but many thanks for clarifying this matter

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