[bug] appimage does not contain libthai.so

[dnaq]

Describe the bug

Running an appimage generated by the tauri build system doesn't work on linux distributions that don't contain libthai.so in the library search path, making the appimage not fully self-contained.

Reproduction

1. Create an appimage with tauri
2. Try to run it on a linux distro not containing libthai.so
3. Get the error message: error while loading shared libraries: libthai.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Expected behavior

That the application should run

Platform and versions

N/A (since this affects users of the system, not application developers)

Stack trace

No response

Additional context

The bug was previously reported by someone else as #4847, but subsequently closed.

Unpacking the appimage and running ls on appimage-path/usr/lib shows the following libraries bundled:

im-am-et.so -> x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/immodules/im-am-et.so
im-broadway.so -> x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/immodules/im-broadway.so
im-cedilla.so -> x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/immodules/im-cedilla.so
im-cyrillic-translit.so -> x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/immodules/im-cyrillic-translit.so
im-inuktitut.so -> x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/immodules/im-inuktitut.so
im-ipa.so -> x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/immodules/im-ipa.so
im-multipress.so -> x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/immodules/im-multipress.so
im-thai.so -> x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/immodules/im-thai.so
im-ti-er.so -> x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/immodules/im-ti-er.so
im-ti-et.so -> x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/immodules/im-ti-et.so
im-viqr.so -> x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/immodules/im-viqr.so
im-wayland.so -> x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/immodules/im-wayland.so
im-waylandgtk.so -> x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/immodules/im-waylandgtk.so
im-xim.so -> x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/immodules/im-xim.so
libatk-1.0.so.0
libatk-bridge-2.0.so.0
libatspi.so.0
libavahi-client.so.3
libavahi-common.so.3
libblkid.so.1
libbrotlicommon.so.1
libbrotlidec.so.1
libbsd.so.0
libcairo-gobject.so.2
libcairo.so.2
libcolord.so.2
libcups.so.2
libdatrie.so.1
libdbus-1.so.3
libenchant-2.so.2
libepoxy.so.0
libffi.so.7
libgcrypt.so.20
libgdk-3.so.0
libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so
libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0
libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0.4000.0
libgio-2.0.so
libgio-2.0.so.0
libgio-2.0.so.0.6400.6
libglib-2.0.so.0
libgmodule-2.0.so.0
libgnutls.so.30
libgobject-2.0.so
libgobject-2.0.so.0
libgobject-2.0.so.0.6400.6
libgraphite2.so.3
libgssapi_krb5.so.2
libgstallocators-1.0.so.0
libgstapp-1.0.so.0
libgstaudio-1.0.so.0
libgstbase-1.0.so.0
libgstfft-1.0.so.0
libgstgl-1.0.so.0
libgstpbutils-1.0.so.0
libgstreamer-1.0.so.0
libgsttag-1.0.so.0
libgstvideo-1.0.so.0
libgtk-3.so.0
libgudev-1.0.so.0
libharfbuzz-icu.so.0
libhogweed.so.5
libhyphen.so.0
libicudata.so.66
libicui18n.so.66
libicuuc.so.66
libidn2.so.0
libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0.so.18
libjbig.so.0
libjpeg.so.8
libjson-glib-1.0.so.0
libk5crypto.so.3
libkeyutils.so.1
libkrb5.so.3
libkrb5support.so.0
liblcms2.so.2
liblz4.so.1
liblzma.so.5
libmount.so.1
libnettle.so.7
libnotify.so.4
libopenjp2.so.7
liborc-0.4.so.0
libpango-1.0.so
libpango-1.0.so.0
libpango-1.0.so.0.4400.7
libpangocairo-1.0.so
libpangocairo-1.0.so.0
libpangocairo-1.0.so.0.4400.7
libpangoft2-1.0.so
libpangoft2-1.0.so.0
libpangoft2-1.0.so.0.4400.7
libpcre.so.3
libpcre2-8.so.0
libpixbufloader-ani.so -> x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-ani.so
libpixbufloader-bmp.so -> x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-bmp.so
libpixbufloader-gif.so -> x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-gif.so
libpixbufloader-icns.so -> x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-icns.so
libpixbufloader-ico.so -> x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-ico.so
libpixbufloader-jpeg.so -> x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-jpeg.so
libpixbufloader-png.so -> x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-png.so
libpixbufloader-pnm.so -> x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-pnm.so
libpixbufloader-qtif.so -> x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-qtif.so
libpixbufloader-svg.so -> x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-svg.so
libpixbufloader-tga.so -> x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-tga.so
libpixbufloader-tiff.so -> x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-tiff.so
libpixbufloader-xbm.so -> x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-xbm.so
libpixbufloader-xpm.so -> x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-xpm.so
libpixman-1.so.0
libpng16.so.16
libprintbackend-cloudprint.so -> x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/printbackends/libprintbackend-cloudprint.so
libprintbackend-cups.so -> x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/printbackends/libprintbackend-cups.so
libprintbackend-file.so -> x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/printbackends/libprintbackend-file.so
libprintbackend-lpr.so -> x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/printbackends/libprintbackend-lpr.so
libprintbackend-test.so -> x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/printbackends/libprintbackend-test.so
libpsl.so.5
librest-0.7.so.0
librsvg-2.so
librsvg-2.so.2
librsvg-2.so.2.47.0
libseccomp.so.2
libsecret-1.so.0
libselinux.so.1
libsoup-2.4.so.1
libsoup-gnome-2.4.so.1
libsqlite3.so.0
libsystemd.so.0
libtasn1.so.6
libtiff.so.5
libudev.so.1
libunistring.so.2
libwayland-client.so.0
libwayland-cursor.so.0
libwayland-egl.so.1
libwayland-server.so.0
libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so.37
libwebp.so.6
libwebpdemux.so.2
libwoff2common.so.1.0.2
libwoff2dec.so.1.0.2
libX11-xcb.so.1
libXau.so.6
libxcb-render.so.0
libxcb-shm.so.0
libXcomposite.so.1
libXcursor.so.1
libXdamage.so.1
libXdmcp.so.6
libXext.so.6
libXfixes.so.3
libXi.so.6
libXinerama.so.1
libxkbcommon.so.0
libxml2.so.2
libXrandr.so.2
libXrender.so.1
libxslt.so.1
libzstd.so.1
x86_64-linux-gnu

notably libthai.so.0 is missing from that output

[FabianLars]

N/A (since this affects users of the system, not application developers)

Wellll, about that. We still need info about your build system since that's where the appimages pulls its files from.
On that topic, does the build system has the file in question?

[dnaq]

This is from running a third party application that uses tauri, the application can be found here and uses a github action to build it on ubuntu-latest

[FabianLars]

Thanks! I still have a couple of follow up questions. If this error happens on your system:

• Which distro are you using?
• what is your display language?
• what is your input language?
  I'm asking because this doesn't happen on english & german systems.

[dnaq]

I'm running nixos (unstable) with a display language of english and an input language of english

[FabianLars]

Ahhh so it probably only happens on nixos then 🤔 Wouldn't surprise me since we have many unresolved issues with it (primarily when using it as a build system), because none of the team members use nixos.

Thanks again ❤️ we'll look into it as soon as we can :)

[dnaq]

I don’t think that’s the issue, I think the main issue is that the buildapp step doesn’t bundle libthai, while the actual generated appimage needs it to run.

It probably manifests on nixos since nixos doesn’t have a standard library search path to fall back to, and most other distros will have libthai in the search path, so it’ll work on those.

Still, the main issue is that the appimage created isn’t system independent, and an easy way to make it system independent is to just make sure that all library dependencies are bundled in the final result.

[FabianLars]

Yeah no, i'm totally with you there. I meant that it seems to only be a problem on nixos which is why it's so rare and why i wasn't able to reproduce it. I didn't mean to blame the issue itself on nixos, if you get what i mean.

Now the question is, why it's not being bundled. It's a dependency of webkitgtk, so linuxdeploy is supposed to include all the needed .so files 🤔

Edit: Found the answer, it's on the excludelist: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/probonopd/AppImages/master/excludelist

[dnaq]

I was just searching for an excludelist, but you beat me to it :).

[yixinBC]

A user using GNU\Gentoo Linux also report the same issue:lencx/ChatGPT#312

[phil294]

Edit: Found the answer, it's on the excludelist: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/probonopd/AppImages/master/excludelist

but it looks like it shouldn't: AppImageCommunity/pkg2appimage#538

[JohnCC330]

The same happens on the Slackware distribution. I have Slackware64 version 15.0 installed and libthai is not present.

Note: Libthai is available in the Slackbuilds repo. It has libdatie as dependency though (also available on the repo).

[victor-rays]

Just bumping this that it happens when I build a Tauri application on GitHub actions as well

EDIT: Installing libthai.so does not solve the issue for me when trying to run the AppImage (NixOS)

EDIT2: For those of you coming here trying to run a Tauri bundled AppImage under NixOS, overriding the appimage-run package and adding the libthai.so package is what finally worked for me to run the AppImage.

Found the answer thanks to #7046 🙏

nix-shell -p 'appimage-run.override { extraPkgs = pkgs: [ pkgs.libthai ]; }' --run "appimage-run ./${TAURI-APP}.AppImage"

[Zylanx]

Found the answer thanks to #7046 🙏

nix-shell -p 'appimage-run.override { extraPkgs = pkgs: [ pkgs.libthai ]; }' --run "appimage-run ./${TAURI-APP}.AppImage"

A better fix than using this workaround or waiting would be to merge this into the actual derivation. Then it would immediately start helping people using Nix, rather than waiting for it to filter through updating tauri, surely?

[SuperSamus]

A better fix than using this workaround or waiting would be to merge this into the actual derivation.

This is already done: NixOS/nixpkgs#271170

[Korne127]

This has been fixed by AppImageCommunity/pkg2appimage#555

[Korne127]

You need to call generate-excludelist.sh and compile linuxdeploy or wait for the next linuxdeploy release for this to be resolved in the next tauri release.

[Norbiros]

linuxdeploy release in tauri's binary releases has been updated! After recompiling my app, I was finally able to run it without libthai.