AM
An "AUR-inspired" Database of AppImage packages and a CLI to manage/install/update them system-wide! This repo lists 1900+ standalone apps for GNU/Linux. You can extend it with custom repositories, create your own installation scripts and even build AppImages on the fly! "AM" Application Manager: Easy to use like APT and Powerful like PacMan! (by ivan-hc)
Conty
Easy to use unprivileged Linux container packed into a single portable executable (by Kron4ek)
| AM | Conty | |
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| 76 | 42 | |
| 321 | 653 | |
| - | - | |
| 9.9 | 8.0 | |
| 4 days ago | 6 days ago | |
| Shell | Shell | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
AM
Posts with mentions or reviews of AM.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-13.
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How do you (yes, you specifically) work with appimages?
I recently discovered AM App Manager, it's app manager for appimages that have system integration and you can update all your apps with one command. Take a look at it's catalog to see if your app is supported.
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Install issue on PopOS using appImage
I use https://github.com/ivan-hc/AM-Application-Manager to install App image, to include Neovim. By default it currently installs Version 10.0 and creates the symlinks.
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I'm sick of reading that among the disadvantages of AppImage is the lack of updates and a centralized repository!
I have been working on two CLI tools to install AppImage packages system wide and locall (they are AM and AppMan respectively). I've also written a website that acts as a catalog and a better source for downloading them all for real, https://portable-linux-apps.github.io !
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ArchImage: my (experimental) side-project to convert Arch Linux programs to AppImages that really work on any distro, old or young... powered by Junest
In conclusion, I feel really confortable with docker/podman/distrobox/junest... but I also like a lot AppImage packages, so I'm trying to merge both. Something I learned all this time I use Linux is that there is no distro, no package format, no software... that can really satisfy my needs. The best hing I can do to solve this situation is to built it by myself (this is my main project, I named it "AM"). I spent two years to create what I like, after a decade as a common Linux user that uses what distro/package mantainers had to give, and this make me feel better. This last point is the main reason because all these distros and software solutions exists in GNU/Linux.
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Ventoy Installation
This is one of the 1700 installation scripts of my project.
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After two years of development on "AM", AppMan and many Appimage packages... I'm seriously considering giving it all up
I started writing AM/AppMan two years ago, it was just a custom script to install and always keep any Appimage package I needed updated to the latest version. Then become something much bigger.
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I have developed my own Appimage package manager in full BASH, here are 3 different approuches to install the apps: xterm (1, the default one, allows to interact when prompted questions), less (2, clean but non interactive) or nothing (not clean). What is better? Have you got suggestions?
Sure https://github.com/ivan-hc/AM-Application-Manager I have already tried with lowercases words but I don't like that, that's why I've chosen uppercased text. "De gustibus non est disputandum", Romans said.
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Portable Arch Linux packed into a single executable
I like containers, I've tried Junest and docker/podman/distrobox... also I work a lot with portable apps (see here) and I've also published a website for them (here) so I'm amazed on how you've built something that can merge them! I'll include it on my catalog (also I'm writing an installation script for it). Thank you!
- Portable-Linux-apps.github.io reached 1608 applications (about 1570 are Appimage packages), all with descriptions and links to the authors, sources... and installation scripts I wrote one by one.
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After a long waiting and big cleaning of the code... "AM" Application Manager is back: 1596 installation scripts (i.e. about 1550 Appimage packages, all installable and updatable). And the uploading is not finished yet!
Learn more at https://portable-linux-apps.github.io
Conty
Posts with mentions or reviews of Conty.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-11.
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[PSA] If you are having problems running EAC enabled games on Steam, try running Steam through conty
For the glory of mankind he edited his post saying that running Steam through conty (https://github.com/Kron4ek/Conty) fixed his problem with EAC enabled games.
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Civ6 in a Windows VM?
Have you tried using: Flatpak (use flatseal for other library locations), Conty (use HOME_DIR in case you want to separate it from host's .steam folder), or Distrobox (use Bazzite-Arch image for quick setup)
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Wine 8.10 Released
nah, there is conty to save the day of not dealing with i386
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Gaming in Slackware?
Or go the https://github.com/Kron4ek/Conty way
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Portable Arch Linux packed into a single executable
These ideas I'm toying with also is what made me request the non-image option with Conty here (https://github.com/Kron4ek/Conty/issues/77) where u/Kron4ek speedily patched an option to do so (ty!). Though I'm still pondering what I'm trying to do and if it would make sense with Conty.
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Current state of linux application sandboxing. Is it even as secure as Android ?
I'd imagine the sandbox options are bubblewrap presets, though -- you'd probably want to look around conty-start.sh for more details or ask in the GitHub Discussion.
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The first tip to give to any new Linux user should be "do NOT search for, download, and install software on the Web!"
Have you tried Conty? The best way I could describe it is the combination of distrobox and AppImage. You basically build a single binary (or use the pre-built one the dev made) containing a minimal Arch install and any other packages you listed in the create-arch-bootstrap.sh file.
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Thinking of purchasing a 4080 laptop and replacing W11 with KDE plasma
Do note that with Nobara having Fedora base, some stuff might not have a Flatpak/AppImage or RPM for you to install easily unlike on Debian/Ubuntu-based (tho PikaOS is Nobara re-implemented under Ubuntu-base, but I haven't tested it). Distrobox and Conty may help you with that, but if you were fine with Steam Deck's limitation, you should be alright under Fedora-based distro.
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Improved Wine gaming with exeCute
It's why I usually just run Bottles in Conty. nix-unstable also have the latest Bottles builds, though I haven't tested those yet. I don't think the default permissions is a big problem though, just something to note if you store your games outside of areas it has permissions for by default.
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Pacman Virtual Environment v0.1
Conty https://github.com/Kron4ek/Conty looks interesting, but also relies on an image, here squashfs. Mentioned in this comment along with some more options: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/xq09nf/comment/iqdigoe/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
What are some alternatives?
When comparing AM and Conty you can also consider the following projects:
firedragon-browser - A Floorp fork with custom branding 🐉 (mirrored from GitLab)
Wine-Builds - Wine builds (Vanilla, Staging, TkG and Proton)
AppMan - Manage 1900+ AppImage packages and official standalone apps for GNU/Linux without root privileges using the extensible and ever-growing AUR-inspired database of "AM Application Manager". Easy to use like APT and powerful like PacMan.
wine-portable-executable - Wine builds packed into portable executables
Spotify-appimage - Unofficial AppImage for Spotify
linux_rocksmith - Guides to get Rocksmith 2014 running on Linux
gimp-appimage
distrobox - Use any linux distribution inside your terminal. Enable both backward and forward compatibility with software and freedom to use whatever distribution you’re more comfortable with. Mirror available at: https://gitlab.com/89luca89/distrobox
GIMP-x86_64.AppImage - GNU Image Manipulation Program, cross-platform image and photo editor, AppImages for x86 and x64 architectures built from the more recent PPA (supports GLIBC 2.27 or later). [Moved to: https://github.com/ivan-hc/GIMP-64bit-and-32bit.AppImage]
flatpak - Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework
nyxt - Nyxt - the hacker's browser.
steamtinkerlaunch - Linux wrapper tool for use with the Steam client for custom launch options and 3rd party programs [Moved to: https://github.com/sonic2kk/steamtinkerlaunch]