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The latest Nextcloud Files Linux AppImage does not run on my system. Can anyone confirm? When I try to run it in a terminal, it fails with this error:

./Nextcloud-4.0.5-x86_64.AppImage: symbol lookup error: /tmp/.mount_NextclHbCPhi/usr/bin/../lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_string_copy

I use Debian 13 and have been using Nextcloud AppImage versions for many years without problems. What is going wrong here? Did they forget to include some library in the image? Don't they test what they compile?

Luckily, I still have the older 4.0.1 version. But using out of date software is not ideal.

The smaller than usual size of the AppImage seems a bit suspicious to me (167 MB vs. 193 MB for the older version). While I welcome de-bloating, this seems like they left out some essential stuff.

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It's possible that the newer appimage depends on an external newer version of the glibc library, whereas the older appimage bundles it into the appimage.

I tracked down the relevant github issue. That issue is closed and it looks like they implemented a fix already.

Try 4.0.6