{"id":48089,"date":"2025-02-07T14:16:51","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T14:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=48089"},"modified":"2025-03-29T02:35:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T02:35:29","slug":"shijima-qt-linux-app-desktop-pets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2025\/02\/shijima-qt-linux-app-desktop-pets\/","title":{"rendered":"Shijima-Qt – New Native Linux App for Desktop Pets"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Looking for a digital pet application for your computer? Here’s one that works natively in Linux Desktop.<\/p>\n

It’s Shijima<\/a>, a cross-platform shimeji simulation, desktop pets app works on any device, including Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, iOS, and Nintendo Wii.<\/p>\n

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The is free and open-source<\/b> (licensed under GPLv3+ since v0.0.3) application. The PC\/laptop edition uses Qt6<\/b> framework for its user interface. And it works on KDE<\/b>, GNOME<\/b> (both X11 and Wayland), and other Linux desktop environments.<\/p>\n

Shijima-Qt provides portable executable file and AppImage for Linux. No installation is required. Just run to launch the app window, then, import shimeji mascots by drag’n’dropping the zip\/rar\/7z archive into app window. Finally, click to add your pets onto desktop and play with them!<\/p>\n

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How to Install Shijima-Qt in Ubuntu & other Linux<\/h3>\n

The app is available to install in Linux through 2 ways: Flatpak<\/b> and AppImage<\/b>. Choose either one that you prefer.<\/p>\n

Option 1: AppImage<\/h4>\n

The Shijima-Qt packages for Linux, Windows, and macOS are available to download in Github releases page via link below:<\/p>\n

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Download Shijima-Qt (under Assets)<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

For Linux, select download either the release-linux-x86_64.zip<\/code> that works on modern Intel\/AMD CPUs, or release-linux-arm64.zip<\/code> for ARM devices (e.g., Raspberry Pi).<\/p>\n

Then, decompress and finally run the “Shijima-Qt.AppImage<\/i>” from extracted folder to launch the app.<\/p>\n

To run it, either right-click and select “Run” (after enabled “Executable as Program”\u00a0 permissionin its Properties dialog), or right-click on blank area in the folder that contains the executable files, select “Open in Terminal” and finally run command below in pop-up terminal window.<\/p>\n

.\/Shijima-Qt.AppImage<\/pre>\n
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NOTE 1: Ubuntu since 22.04 does NOT support AppImage out-of-the-box, run sudo apt install libfuse2<\/code> in terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) first to enable.<\/b><\/p>\n
NOTE 2: The first time launching the app will ask to log out and back in<\/i> to apply extension to make it work.<\/b><\/p>\n
NOTE 3: Since v0.0.2 it has a default mascot. For more, you may to search (e.g., <character name> shimeji<\/code>) and download from the web. And, here are some Murder Drones shimeji by @PolarSummit<\/a> on X.<\/b><\/p>\n
If you don’t like the AppImage, you may run the shijima-qt<\/b> file in that folder instead to launch the app. It however requires Qt6 >= 6.7<\/b> that’s NOT available in Ubuntu repositories until 25.04.<\/p>\n
Even in Ubuntu 25.04 (still in development stage), you need to run command to install the required run-time libraries:<\/p>\n
sudo apt install libqt6widgets6 libqt6multimedia6 libqt6core6t64<\/pre>\n
And, finally run command from that folder to launch the executable file:<\/p>\n
QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb .\/shijima-qt<\/pre>\n
Option 2: Flatpak package<\/h4>\n
For choice, Shijima-Qt now is available to install as Flatpak package<\/a>, which runs in sandbox environment.<\/p>\n
Linux Mint 21\/22 and Fedora Workstation (with 3rd party repository enabled) can directly search for and install the app from either Software Manager or GNOME Software.<\/p>\n
While Debian\/Ubuntu users may follow the steps below one by one to install the package:<\/p>\n