pkg2appimage VS AppImageUpdate

Compare pkg2appimage vs AppImageUpdate and see what are their differences.

pkg2appimage

Tool and recipes to convert existing deb packages to AppImage (by AppImageCommunity)

AppImageUpdate

AppImageUpdate lets you update AppImages in a decentral way using information embedded in the AppImage itself. (by AppImageCommunity)
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pkg2appimage AppImageUpdate
14 21
665 537
1.7% 2.0%
6.9 4.6
2 months ago 5 months ago
Shell C++
MIT License MIT License
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pkg2appimage

Posts with mentions or reviews of pkg2appimage. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-25.

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.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing pkg2appimage 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

deb2appimage - Build AppImages from deb packages on any distro with simple json configuration

AppImageLauncher - Helper application for Linux distributions serving as a kind of "entry point" for running and integrating AppImages

topgrade - Upgrade everything

zap - :zap: Delightful AppImage package manager

bubblewrap - Low-level unprivileged sandboxing tool used by Flatpak and similar projects

flathub - Issue tracker and new submissions

firejail - Linux namespaces and seccomp-bpf sandbox

com.skype.Client

winsparkle - App update framework for Windows, inspired by Sparkle for macOS

ostree - Operating system and container binary deployment and upgrades

com.jetbrains.IntelliJ-IDEA-Community