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Provide an AppImage for Linux distributions

See original GitHub issue

It might be great in the long run to provide the Appimage format next to .deb and .rpm. While I’d still like to see #44 to be a thing, it would come with even more advantages.

Based off of https://github.com/MrAlex94/Waterfox/issues/127

Works for most Linux distributions (including Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, CentOS, elementaryOS, Linux Mint, and others)
One app = one file = super simple for users: just download one AppImage file, make it executable, and run
No unpacking or installation necessary
No root needed
No system libraries changed
Just one format for all major distributions
Works out of the box, no installation of runtimes needed (unlike Snap and Flatpak)
Optional desktop integration with appimaged
Optional binary delta updates, e.g., for continuous builds (only download the binary diff) using AppImageUpdate
Can optionally GPG2-sign your AppImages (inside the file)
Works on Live ISOs (unlike Flatpak)
Can use the same AppImages when dual-booting multiple distributions

Here is an overview of projects that are already distributing upstream-provided, official AppImages.

It might also be great to provide the source files in a .tar.gz format too if it isn’t possible.

Issue Analytics

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Created 6 years ago
Reactions:1
Comments:5 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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kauffjcommented, Apr 18, 2017

I think the AppImage format is great and we’ve looked at it, but we’re stretched too thin to tackle this right now. One day!

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Serkan-develcommented, Nov 5, 2017

bump

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