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Provide AppImage for Linux
See original GitHub issueWould you be interested in providing an AppImage for Linux? It would have, among others, these advantages:
- 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
- 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
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. I’m happy to help if there is interest.
Issue Analytics
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- Created 6 years ago
- Comments:17 (7 by maintainers)
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@probonopd I could upload one for the last release if you want (just ask). But yeah, it was initially planned for the next release.
I can provide a .deb too.
AppImage seems better for app of this kind than snap or flatpak. It will be included in the binaries of the next releases once #339 will be merged.
Thanks again for the suggestion @probonopd.