[HELP] Linux Mint Vapoursynth - missing vspipe

[xlice]

.profile and .bashrc both have 

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/opt/vapoursynth/lib
export PYTHONPATH=~/opt/vapoursynth/lib/python3.12/site-packages
export PATH="~/opt/vapoursynth/bin:$PATH"
export PATH="~/.local/bin:$PATH"

added at the end. 
Terminal has been closed and opened, computer rebooted, a few times.

There is no ~/opt/vapoursynth/bin/vspipe

calling "~/opt/vapoursynth/bin/vspipe --version" shows "no such file exists"

I did have to use the appimge from the google drive folder "Hybrid-2025.12.08.1-x86_64.AppImage"
The one from the downloads page would not do anything even after setting it to allow being executed.
Linux Mint 22.2 Cinnamon - 6.4.8