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Please be extremely careful when deciding whether to trust an appimage. I would only run an appimage in a very rare circumstance. Most software should be installed from the distro repository and if it isn't in the distro repository, then I would use flatpak.
This seems to be the package you are missing. You would install it with the package manager for fedora.
https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/webkitgtk/webkit2gtk4.1/
I think you would do something like
or
To provide a little more background,
.sofiles ("shared objects") are the Unix equivalent of.dllfiles ("dynamically linked libraries") on Windows. They contain a collection of software routines which are shared between various programs (in this case, the ability to embed a browser engine within a GTK application). On a technical level, they provide the benefit that code in a shared object only needs to be stored on the disk and loaded into memory once, regardless of how many programs make use of it. Unlike Windows, these files are versioned (which is why you'll often see numbers after the.sosuffix). For the most part, they are stored in/usr/libor/usr/lib64When you run a program, a part of the operating system called the dynamic linker will search for all the required libraries (also known as dependencies) as a prerequisite to starting the program. If the dynamic linker fails to find any of the needed dependencies, you get an error message like the one shown above. The circumstance of needing to track down many arbitrary dependencies, many of which may have their own dependencies, is known as "dependency hell." It is the fundamental problem which package managers solve, and can quicky become a burden when working around them.
AppImages are supposed to "solve" this problem as well by bundling all their needed dependencies, but in practice a lot of them still seem to make assumptions about what libraries and utilities are present on your machine. I'm not as well versed in the technical details.
This is immensely helpful for me to understand things, thank you. Feel free to continue sharing knowledge! A lot of times when someone gives answers about Linux stuff it's sorely lacking this kind of explanation. Like, spelling out acronyms and their meaning is huge.