Kurt Pfeifle

That would be the same as mine.... However, I had all the libs and dev packages you mentioned already on my system (for other reasons than testing EagleMode). So why does the AppImage work for me but not for you?

On what distro/version did you check the AppImage, Oliver? (Whatever the problem with it, it's not something which couldn't be fixed easily, I think. If worst comes to worse, one could even include the important dependencies in a compatible version. Since AppImages are always compressed on disk -- and remain so, even at runtime! -- the "bloat" is not as bad as it sounds. If we'd include the required versions of xterm, ghostscript, perl, png and jpeg libs, the AppImage would grow from 18 to maybe...

Seems like Simon, the founder of the AppImage project has taken a personal interest now in general EagleMode availability and promotion: he created a first Eagle_Mode-x86_64.AppImage. I successfully tested it on a Debian Stretch v9.6 system, running on an old Lenovo T500 notebook just fine. You can get it here: https://github.com/probonopd/eaglemode/releases Please let him know if you are interested....

BTW, a small question on the side: did you ever consider to move all the EM project files to GitHub or GitLab? SourceForge must have served you well, and for a long time to your full satisfaction (and may still do) -- but the exposure for the EM project simply is so much greater if it is hosted on a more popular platform.... (I'm not asking/proposing you to do a move, I'm just asking if this step ever crossed your mind.)

I would like to use an AppImage binary of EagleMode, provided by the EM developers themselves, not by any distro packager. In case you aren't familiar with AppImages: this is a software packaging format, which is able to run unchanged on a lot of different current, recent and not-so-recent Linux distributions. The charm of an AppImage is that it implements the philosophy of "One App = One File". You just need to make that file executable and it runs. (The secret sauce behind it is that it holds the...