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If you get an "dlopen(): error loading libfuse.so.2" error

When running Arduino IDE on Linux, you may get this error:

dlopen(): error loading libfuse.so.2

AppImages require FUSE to run.
You might still be able to extract the contents of this AppImage
if you run it with the --appimage-extract option.
See https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/wiki/FUSE
for more information

The error can occur if there are missing software dependencies for AppImage. You can solve the issue by installing them.

Follow these steps:

  1. Open the Terminal application.

  2. Enter this command:

    sudo apt-get -y install libfuse2

  3. Press Enter and wait for the process to complete.

  4. Close the Terminal window.

  5. Try launching Arduino IDE again by double-clicking the AppImage file.

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