Running an AppImage from a USB stick

drywall_dan

Not very familiar with Ubuntu, so this may be simple. Basically I want to run an app image from a FAT32 formatted USB stick. Needs to be FAT32 for portability reasons. The app image is Veracrypt, and I'm trying to make a portable version so I can just plug in the stick and run it. I read that which one can create a 'traveller' version in Windows (done that), in Linux, you need to use the AppImage - which is fully self contained. So, the stick...

Originally asked by nmw01223 on Stack Exchange (askubuntu) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Ubuntu 26.06 by default mounts vfat file systems with the executable bit for ordinary files disabled. This is generally fine. For a general user, and for the few instances where you want to run the AppImage, the easiest way probably will be to copy it to your home directory or the /tmp directory, and run it from there. That is not as clunky as you suggest, and no terminal wizardry is needed. Alternatively, you can unmount and mount it again but with the executable bit set. That can be done as regular user: udisksctl unmount -b /dev/sdX1 udisksctl mount -b /dev/sdX1 --options exec,uid=$UID,gid=$(id -g) For this portable USB, the suggestion of creating an additional ext4 (or perhaps better an...

Full answer by vanadium: https://askubuntu.stackexchange.com/a/1568260 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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