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download the obsidian appimage
appimages are one of many ways to package apps for linux
extract the appimage
think of this like unzipping a zip file. Appimages normally can just be ran in a terminal, but because kasm workspaces dont have support for a FUSE filesystem you cannot just run it directly, i dont think.
extracting the appimage creates the folder squashfs-root, which has all the contents of the appimage
rename squashfs-root to Obsidian, so that if you ever have to extract more appimages, life is easier. this also gives you an easy directory for your obsidian installation.
go into your new obsidian folder, and run the script that starts obsidian. ./{file name} runs a file. normally for an Appimage this is ./AppRun
because obsidian is an electron program, it runs a browser, and browsers dont like it when they arent properly sandboxed
you cannot pass a argument to ./AppRun, so you must run the actual obsidian binary via ./obsidian and use the —no-sandbox flag to avoid sandboxing, so the command is ./obsidian —no-sandbox