Most AppImage files are full compiled applications on their own, no need to "install" anything. Just run them directly to start the application.
You may need to expand in your post what it is you're doing exactly? Or maybe you downloaded the one Appimage that is an installer for something and it is designed to remove itself after installation? Doubt that is what is happening but can't entirely rule it out.
Then it would be in two places, both your downloads directory (I assume that's where you ran it from originally) and the Applications folder where the AppManager has "installed" it.
If you want to backup a copy of it just go to the Applications folder and copy it from there.
How are you installing them? I believe you can use something like Gear Lever to quickly "install" AppImage files. AppImages are standalone applications, kind of like flatpaks, but using Gear Lever you can integrate them into your distro's app menu as if it were an installed application.
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brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 158d
Most AppImage files are full compiled applications on their own, no need to "install" anything. Just run them directly to start the application.
You may need to expand in your post what it is you're doing exactly? Or maybe you downloaded the one Appimage that is an installer for something and it is designed to remove itself after installation? Doubt that is what is happening but can't entirely rule it out.
ColdWater@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 158d
How did you even install AppImage?
Fizz@lemmy.nz · 1 pts · 157d
I think you dont. You just run it
CodenameDarlen@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 158d
tdTrX@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 158d
It there a setting for AppImageLauncher to not delete the file
BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 158d
Then it would be in two places, both your downloads directory (I assume that's where you ran it from originally) and the Applications folder where the AppManager has "installed" it.
If you want to backup a copy of it just go to the Applications folder and copy it from there.
marighost@piefed.social · 4 pts · 158d
How are you installing them? I believe you can use something like Gear Lever to quickly "install" AppImage files. AppImages are standalone applications, kind of like flatpaks, but using Gear Lever you can integrate them into your distro's app menu as if it were an installed application.
HubertManne@piefed.social · 1 pts · 158d
don't rm them and this should stop happening.
shrek_is_love@lemmy.ml · -1 pts · 158d
I know how to fix that