AppImageUpdate
AppImageUpdate lets you update AppImages in a decentral way using information embedded in the AppImage itself. (by AppImageCommunity)
| AppImageUpdate | org.winehq.Wine | |
|---|---|---|
| 21 | 5 | |
| 545 | 32 | |
| 1.1% | - | |
| 4.6 | 6.3 | |
| 6 months ago | about 1 month ago | |
| C++ | ||
| 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.
AppImageUpdate
Posts with mentions or reviews of AppImageUpdate.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-06.
- Why the neovim in the mint repo is so old? Im currently using mint 21.2. Is there a newer version available already? Im not able to use the plugins in this old version, and the snap version seems kinda laggy for me
- Why do I have do download >1 GB for Okular PDF viewer over flatpak? Installing it over dnf just totals to 81 MB
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Appimages are too large, Flatpak is the way to go!
There's an updater for appimages https://github.com/AppImageCommunity/AppImageUpdate
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Lamenting What AppImage Could Have Been
AppImages can contain update information (and even support partial updates using zsync), check out https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageUpdate.
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App Manager For .AppImage File
https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageUpdate this only works if the application has information regarding where to fetch the update from...
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feat: Linux AppImage update information
It would be very nice and handy if we could easily update Tutanota Linux desktop app. Luckily, since it is packaged as an AppImage, there's an easy-to-integrate utility available just for that.
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appimage-builder 1.0.0 was released, a tool for packing applications along with all of its dependencies using the system package manager to obtain binaries and resolve dependencies.
It's not centralised, not like Snap with SnapCraft, not even like Flatpak with it's 'not technically but kinda is in practice' Flathub repository. Anyone can make an AppImage, anyone can host an AppImage, anyone can download and run an AppImage, anyone can implement AppImage integration in a distro, and there's even a nice system for automatic updates for AppImage which again is nicely decentralised.
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Interesting Benchmarks of Flatpak vs. Snap vs. AppImage
Some have built-in. some not. Btw I considered AppImageUpdate , but it would become re-install a full new app
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AppImage and centralized repositories: my point of view
The fact is that the delta update system via Zsync and appimageupdatetool are real solutions to the problem, but too many developers do not implement it in their AppImage, myself included.
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Installing an openSUSE desktop for a non-technical person
Btw, regarding Flatpak, I've had multiple issues related to mouse cursor, fonts, and local folder access - all related to the sandboxing of apps, all resolvable, but potentially a problem for a non-technical user. I've had much better experiences with AppImages, but I don't know if they have a graphical app store like interface; even the AppImageUpdate idea is still catching on.
org.winehq.Wine
Posts with mentions or reviews of org.winehq.Wine.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-27.
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I've been dying to play Ever17, and I'm also getting a Steam Deck soon. Anyone out there know if it's playable in some fashion on Steam Deck?
There's probably a way to get codec working but for now only ffdshow codec is available on Bottles (and that didn't work for this game) and it's too much of a hassle to do it with Wine Flatpak right now.
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Aokana (JAST ver) on Steam Deck
Other than that, you could always make a .desktop file or manually write invoke Wine using the Flatpak version, as someone did manage to figure out how to work out using Steam ROM Manager with Flatpak version of emulators.
- WINE 7.0 Flatpak is (unofficially) now available on Flathub!
What are some alternatives?
When comparing AppImageUpdate and org.winehq.Wine you can also consider the following projects:
AppImageLauncher - Helper application for Linux distributions serving as a kind of "entry point" for running and integrating AppImages
Wine-Builds - Wine builds (Vanilla, Staging, TkG and Proton)
topgrade - Upgrade everything
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.
zap - :zap: Delightful AppImage package manager
WINE_AppImage
firejail - Linux namespaces and seccomp-bpf sandbox
proton-ge-custom - Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components
winsparkle - App update framework for Windows, inspired by Sparkle for macOS
steam-for-linux - Issue tracking for the Steam for Linux beta client
linuxdeployqt - Makes Linux applications self-contained by copying in the libraries and plugins that the application uses, and optionally generates an AppImage. Can be used for Qt and other applications
pkg2appimage - Tool and recipes to convert existing deb packages to AppImage
AppImageUpdate vs AppImageLauncher
org.winehq.Wine vs Wine-Builds
AppImageUpdate vs topgrade
org.winehq.Wine vs AppMan
AppImageUpdate vs zap
org.winehq.Wine vs WINE_AppImage
AppImageUpdate vs firejail
org.winehq.Wine vs proton-ge-custom
AppImageUpdate vs winsparkle
org.winehq.Wine vs steam-for-linux
AppImageUpdate vs linuxdeployqt
AppImageUpdate vs pkg2appimage