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Please provide AppImage for download
See original GitHub issueAs per
https://github.com/LN-Zap/zap-desktop/blob/5f389c19362405db41c659ed593e6fe416a0a2f5/package.json#L69
LN-Zap is already configured to be bundled as an AppImage. It would be great if you could provide an AppImage for download on GitHub Releases.
Providing an AppImage would have, among others, these advantages:
- Applications packaged as an AppImage can run on many 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
- Works out of the box, no installation of runtimes needed
- 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
- Can use the same AppImages when dual-booting multiple distributions
- Can be listed in the AppImageHub central directory of available AppImages
- Can double as a self-extracting compressed archive with the
--appimage-extractparameter
Here is an overview of projects that are already distributing upstream-provided, official AppImages.
If you have questions, AppImage developers are on #AppImage on irc.freenode.net.
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- Created 6 years ago
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- Comments:12 (5 by maintainers)
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Thanks for creating this issue. Yes, this is needed. I have been very busy but will be working on Zap Desktop now getting it ready for mainnet testing. I will keep this open until I provide a release
@Empact:
Exactly.
A ZIP to many Linux users looks suspicious. They’d have to download it first and peak inside to know what they deal with. And then, the download may even be in vain because the package isn’t suitable for their system. Or, what also happens, there is a
${s.th.-install}script inside which they’d have to trust first. Or, …Debian users will then recognize that they can install a .deb, and feel better.
AppImage users also recognize the suffix, and will know it will not mess with their system libs when they run it (without installing).