appimage-builder
GNU/Linux packaging solution using the AppImage format (by AppImageCrafters)
AppImageUpdate
AppImageUpdate lets you update AppImages in a decentral way using information embedded in the AppImage itself. (by AppImageCommunity)
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| appimage-builder | AppImageUpdate | |
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| 18 | 21 | |
| 288 | 544 | |
| 6.3% | 2.4% | |
| 5.6 | 4.6 | |
| 18 days ago | 6 months ago | |
| Python | C++ | |
| MIT License | 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.
appimage-builder
Posts with mentions or reviews of appimage-builder.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-23.
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Probono, creator of AppImage, in an attempt to get AppImage support, is banned from the OBS Studio organization on GitHub after downright rude comments and accuses them of supporting Flatpak because of the bounty offered by RH. "In any event, please do not bother our project anymore"
A tool that is capable of bundling everthing (including glibc, libstdc++. and gcc 9 runtime libraries) like https://github.com/AppImageCrafters/appimage-builder or go-appimage appimagetool -s deploy may be better suited for the meantime
- appimage-builder v1.0.1 is here
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How to Develop Linux Applications (Part 2)
wget -O appimage-builder-x86_64.AppImage https://github.com/AppImageCrafters/appimage-builder/releases/download/v1.0.0-beta.1/appimage-builder-1.0.0-677acbd-x86_64.AppImage chmod +x appimage-builder-x86_64.AppImage # install (optional) sudo mv appimage-builder-x86_64.AppImage /usr/local/bin/appimage-builder
- 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.
- appimagebuilder v1.0.0-alpha1 is here
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I have an application (written in python) which uses libadwaita. How would I create an AppImage that contains all required dependencies for this app?
AppImage Builder Can Be Configured To use Pacman Too. Look At This Example And Umm Yea LibAdwaita is Not Available in Most Repositories.
- Good news AppImage makers and Arch Linux users! Now it's possible to use the appimage-builder generator feature to create bundle recipes using pacman. This is feature comes with a great remake of the whole generator implementation. Give it a try
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.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing appimage-builder and AppImageUpdate you can also consider the following projects:
AppImageKit - Package desktop applications as AppImages that run on common Linux-based operating systems, such as RHEL, CentOS, openSUSE, SLED, Ubuntu, Fedora, debian and derivatives. Join #AppImage on irc.libera.chat
AppImageLauncher - Helper application for Linux distributions serving as a kind of "entry point" for running and integrating AppImages
exodus - Painless relocation of Linux binaries–and all of their dependencies–without containers.
topgrade - Upgrade everything
deezer-linux - An universal linux port of deezer, supporting Flatpak, Appimage, Snap, RPM, DEB...
zap - :zap: Delightful AppImage package manager
Bottles - Run Windows software and games on Linux
firejail - Linux namespaces and seccomp-bpf sandbox
AM2R-Autopatcher-Linux - Host repository for the AM2R Linux update data.
winsparkle - App update framework for Windows, inspired by Sparkle for macOS
auto-cpufreq - Automatic CPU speed & power optimizer for Linux
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
appimage-builder vs AppImageKit
AppImageUpdate vs AppImageLauncher
appimage-builder vs exodus
AppImageUpdate vs topgrade
appimage-builder vs deezer-linux
AppImageUpdate vs zap
appimage-builder vs Bottles
AppImageUpdate vs firejail
appimage-builder vs AM2R-Autopatcher-Linux
AppImageUpdate vs winsparkle
appimage-builder vs auto-cpufreq
AppImageUpdate vs linuxdeployqt