pkg2appimage VS gimp-appimage

The pkg2appimage script exists to do these conversions with many examples https://github.com/AppImageCommunity/pkg2appimage/tree/master/recipes

NOTE: I've built it using the recipe available at https://github.com/AppImageCommunity/pkg2appimage, added libunionpreload from https://github.com/project-portable/libunionpreload and some additional paths to LD_LIBRARy_PATH into the AppRun, just tested on Debian and Arch Linux... and works great!

Beyond all, my work is heavily focused on compiling AppImage from existing .deb packages through the use of pkg2appimage and appimagetool, as unofficial AppImage packages not present on AppImageHub are provided, but taken from fairly reliable sources ( Debian repositories, or in some cases a PPAs for Ubuntu). The sources are available via the -a or -w options of my scripts.

Does anyone actually do that? The official documentation says not to do that (see here). Also, the excludelist mentions a couple of problems that happen when certain libraries are bundled in an AppImage.

It sounds like there might also be at least some support for portable Linux formats on Mac: snap appears to allow installing on mac via brew, but it sounds like appimages and flatpaks cannot run on mac. that said, i haven't used snaps on mac nor have I ever heard of anyone who does so... so no clue if they work well there.

PS: yes, I know that better sources for this are already available, for example the Slackware repository and woolyss, but actually the more recent version, the 97, for old i386 machines is provided by Debian (ArchLinux32 has the v90, and other versions are quite buggy for this architecture, see this issue). Unluckily there is not a 32 bit version of pkg2appimage, if we had one or someone can fork better the main script, we can still have more appimages for old architectures, being many of my scripts for x86_64 wrote to support pkg2appimage (as you have already seen in my previous post).

If I have time enough, I wanna try to create a script that automatizes all the processes, also for you developers, but my knowledge is limited to the download of packages from Debian and derivatives or from Arch Linux to create these structures, I'm not much good in compiling these programs by myself into a chroot, I'm just an enthusiast.

Depends on who makes them, but generally everything besides this list

Brave doesn't officially provide any AppImages. There is a issue on GitHub tracking this, but it's definitely not their top priority right now. You can use pkg2appimage to produce an AppImage of Brave or use existing ones available on this GitHub repository. Keep in mind that these are unofficial sources that I don't recommend to use, but if you really want to, at your own risk.

And the issue report about getting this into the official build - at the time this one was filed, this wasn't GitLab CI yet, though this came up during the discussion - is here: https://github.com/aferrero2707/gimp-appimage/issues/9

From here: https://github.com/aferrero2707/gimp-appimage/releases/ I would suggest trying this the last of the stable https://github.com/aferrero2707/gimp-appimage/releases/download/continuous/GIMP\_AppImage-release-2.10.22-withplugins-x86\_64.AppImage Nothing since then. I do not know what happened to Carmelo, hope he is ok I know this works with kubuntu 20.04, you do need to to downgrade to fuse2

Appimage?

The flatpak Gimp is excellent for the majority of Gimp linux users. It is sandboxed, and to certain extent therefore limited. An example, just a few posts away, is connecting to a scanner using XSane - just not going to work unless someone makes a flatpak xsane Gimp plugin. An appimage is a little more libel, a little hands-on tweaking and most things work. Another advantage is multiple versions, want to easily run a Gimp 2.10.08 appimage (last time n-point deformation worked) or Gimp 2.10.14 (last time seamless clone worked) or a current Gimp 2.99 dev version, then it is possible providing these are available as appimages. End of the day, up to you. Years ago I used to make pre 2.10 appimages from a now defunct 'buntu PPA. Believe me it is not easy. The packages from https://github.com/aferrero2707/gimp-appimage/releases/ are really clever, using bits from various distros. Sadly Carmelo seems to have vanished, and the packages stalled. I do hope he is ok.

appimage from https://github.com/aferrero2707/gimp-appimage working fine

You'll have to grab an appimage build elsewhere, I'm afraid (https://github.com/aferrero2707/gimp-appimage/releases looks a little out of date). Someone would need to contributed a recipe for our CI to make those officially.

GIMP 2.10.22 = Very fine open source raster graphics editor.I also recommend putting PhotoGIMP or putting mine configuration files inside ".config/GIMP-Appimage/2.10" it will add Photoshop like extensions to it. You can install through appimage, download from here (please download GIMP_AppImage-release-2.10.22-x86_64.AppImage).

The GIMP AppImage is not maintained by the GIMP developers, so it is an "unofficial" package. The person behind this project is Andrea Ferrero, a well-respected member of PIXLS.US community. There are several versions of this AppImage, and the one I recommend is GIMP_AppImage-git-2.10.25-20210610-withplugins-x86_64.AppImage - it is about 3/4 down the listing. https://github.com/aferrero2707/gimp-appimage/releases/tag/continuous

I found an AppImage version which includes support for python 2.7 but I have no clue how to install `numpy` on that image.