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Installing Obsidian (AppImage) on Ubuntu 20.04
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1. Move the AppImage to /opt

$ sudo mkdir -p /opt/Obsidian
$ mv ~/Downloads/Obsidian-0.13.19.AppImage /opt/Obsidian

2. Create the desktop entry

$ sudo vim /usr/share/applications/obsidian.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Obsidian
Exec=/opt/Obsidian/Obsidian-0.13.19.AppImage
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Icon=obsidian

3. Create the icon

$ copy /path/to/obsidian.png /opt/Obsidian
$ sudo ln -s /opt/Obsidian/obsidian.png /usr/share/pixmaps

Tip: Get the resource files

You can extract the icon and the desktop entry files from the AppImage.

$ /path/to/Obsidian.AppImage --appimage-mount
/tmp/.mount_ObsidiXXXXXX

Just search the files in /tmp/.mount_ObsidiXXXXXX.

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