Installing Ligtburn for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Lighthburn is a popular laser cutting software slicer, so here's how to install it.

Kalle Tolonen
April 12, 2024

Download the appimage from the software vendor:

Lightburn

Downloads$ ls -al LightBurn-Linux64-v1.5.06.AppImage 
-rw-rw-r-- 1 kallet kallet 55801024 huhti  12 11:56 LightBurn-Linux64-v1.5.06.AppImage

# Let's add the rights

$ chmod +x LightBurn-Linux64-v1.5.06.AppImage

And then try running it:

$ ./LightBurn-Linux64-v1.5.06.AppImage 
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

We need to install FUSE too:

$ sudo apt-get install fuse -y

And let's try the next bit:

$ ./LightBurn-Linux64-v1.5.06.AppImage 
Warning: Ignoring XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland on Gnome. Use QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland to run on Wayland anyway.
Using the core prefs dir
connected
No preferences file found
"wlp4s0" "wlp4s0"
"br-99bfe48e3f92" "br-99bfe48e3f92"
"veth3a0600c" "veth3a0600c"
"Integrated Camera: Integrated C" "/dev/video0"

That did the trick.