I am following the manual packaging guide on the AppImage GitHub manual. For AppRun I am using the AppRun-x86_64 from https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/releases (7th July 2019)
I have a name.desktop file in a name.AppImage folder where I replaced name with the project name and the name.desktop gives no error if validated by desktop-file-validate.
Yet, I receive the following error message when running the created AppImage and when running ./AppRun directly:
Error: No .desktop files found
Where does it look for the file and what is the required naming scheme?
Version of appimagetool appimagetool, continuous build (commit fef038a), build 2093 built on 2019-07-07 12:07:34 UTC.
Solved. Accidentally copied the AppRun to my executable. So AppRun -> calls AppRun can't find the .desktop in the usr/bin directory.
I leave the question in case somebody makes the same mistake.