How To Install Ganache on Ubuntu?

[0xRadiant]

I'm following the tutorial on a VM running Ubuntu, and been running into issues with installing Ganache since it's provided as an AppImage. Has anyone here given this a try successfully? Below is what I tried, and the current errors I'm seeing.

parallels@ubuntu-linux-20-04-desktop:~/Downloads$ chmod a+x ganache-2.5.4-linux-x86_64.AppImage 
parallels@ubuntu-linux-20-04-desktop:~/Downloads$ sudo ./ganache-2.5.4-linux-x86_64.AppImage 
./ganache-2.5.4-linux-x86_64.AppImage: 1: �: not found
./ganache-2.5.4-linux-x86_64.AppImage: 2: }�P7pys�H��_f��h: not found
./ganache-2.5.4-linux-x86_64.AppImage: 1: �b�@@: not found
./ganache-2.5.4-linux-x86_64.AppImage: 1: ELFAI: not found
./ganache-2.5.4-linux-x86_64.AppImage: 19: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string

I have tried following some of the relatively straightforward suggestions such as https://askubuntu.com/questions/774490/what-is-an-appimage-how-do-i-install-it#774520. I could also just switch to using macOS, but curious to understand what it would take to get this working on Ubuntu.

[PatrickAlphaC]

Yeah it's been giving people issues :/

To be honest, I'd skip ganache. We are just using it as a stepping stone to hardhat anyway:

https://github.com/smartcontractkit/full-blockchain-solidity-course-js/blob/main/chronological-updates.md#windows-wsl--ganache

[0xRadiant]

Sounds good, thanks!