Issue to install Cursor on a fresh Ubuntu 24.04

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Hello, I am trying to install Cursor on a fresh Ubuntu 24.04 and I keep getting this error:

Command: ./cursor-0.33.1x86_64.AppImage

Output:

[15782:0509/084956.875712:FATAL:setuid_sandbox_host.cc(158)] The SUID sandbox helper binary was found, but is not configured correctly. Rather than run without sandboxing I’m aborting now. You need to make sure that /tmp/.mount_cursorgbp94S/chrome-sandbox is owned by root and has mode 4755.
Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped)

I am not very prolific with AppImage, could you give me any tip to continue the installation?

Thanks.

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Its a problem with apparmor you need to create a profile to run Cursor.

github.com/getcursor/cursor

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You don’t even need apparmor just locate your AppImage and execute it with the option --appimage-extract. Drop into squashfs-root directory and input chmod 4755./chrome-sandbox as well as chown root:root ./chrome-sandbox. Then just run the “cursor” script from there in your applications widget, of course you have the .desktop or however else you prefer.

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Would it not make sense to fix this in the AppImage? The workaround as stated above can be to --appimage-extract, then mv squashfs-root cursor && cd cursor and finally sudo chown root:root chrome-sandbox && sudo chmod 4755 chrome-sandbox.

A solution might be to have the expected ownership and permissions for chrome-sandbox in the AppImage to begin with, so no extraction or AppArmor adjustment is needed.

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I did it your way and it installed, ubuntu asked me to reboot the computer and when rebooting it shows like this, I cant access ubuntu anymore. do you know how to fix it?

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I feel like Ubuntu 24.04.1 is completely broken. I tried it, gave up and went to 22.04, just not worth the effort right now (unless you are lucky and things are magically working for you)

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I have developed a version that provides an interactive selection of specific tasks.

You can select:

  • Option (1): Search for and download the latest version if a newer one is available than what’s currently on your machine.
  • Option (2): Re/install the latest version already downloaded to your machine and create a symbolic link to the executable with an icon.
  • Option (3): Configure AppArmor for the safe execution of the newly installed or updated version.

For more details, view the code and its explanation in my gist:

cursor_appimage_manager.sh

I hope this can help someone.

Good luck!

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This is awesome, thank you for publishing

Edit: I might have spoke too soon.

@jorcelinojunior The desktop app is appearing but refuses to launch

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Once I installed fuse everything worked:

sudo apt install libfuse2
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Thank you for properly code-blocking that, I’m new to forums hah.

I entirely agree, I’m not familiar enough with AppImages to determine if you are allowed to compile something to have a file be owned by the users root though.

@heydan98 what do you mean by “I did it your way”. I assume because Ubuntu asked you to reboot that you are talking about the AppArmor way as changing the appimage shouldn’t have had to do anything system-wide. If you have issues otherwise though feel free to send a message I don’t mind troubleshooting if I can assist in any way.

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@heydan98 man I have the exact same problem right now with my system. I have just installed cursor editor and when I restarted my machine, I got prompted by this screen. I am trying to solve this thing for several hours now. Can someone please help? Also @siegemt