[SOLVED] Launching AppImage for Linux results in error

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I am running Linux Mint 17.3 and successfully downloaded the latest GIMP AppImage file for Linux Distros, but when I double click it, the following error message appears:

Could not display “…/blah/blah/blah/gimp-2.9.9-20180315_2132.glibc2.14-x86_64.AppImage”
There is no application installed for executable files.

The last part of that error message would indicate that it is a MS Windows application. Can anyone shed some light on this issue? Is the link actually erroneously pointing to the Windows version?

I can launch other AppImage files (gimp-cce for example) successfully via double click.

Thanks for any Enlightenment!

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Did you chmod a+x /path/to/gimp.appimage?

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[SOLVED]
OOOOPS! chmod’ing was the solution. I should know better and also learn to read/heed the instructions!

Thanks for the Enlightenment,
Carl

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