AppImageKit Alternatives

AppImageKit reviews and mentions

• Show HN: Finic – open-source platform for building browser automations
  10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Sep 2024

  Like again if you are not sure, what open source means, this is open source: https://appimage.org/

  Hope it is abundantly clear with this example. Docker tried it's best to do the whole open source but business first and it led to disastrous results.

  At best this will make your company suffer and second guess itself and at worst this is moral fraud.

  Talk to your group partner about this and explain to them as well.

• GoboLinux
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Feb 2024

  What you're looking for sounds like AppImages (https://appimage.org/) . I have only used them while downloading games from itch.io, etc. (since i prefer package managers) but they seem to work out of the box on popular distros.

• Bitwarden Heist – How to Break into Password Vaults Without Using Passwords
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Jan 2024

  Ideally a new instance of the application is installed for each user. This also provides better isolation if one user upgrades/removes/breaks their application instance. I, for one, have really come around to the AppImage model [0] in the last couple of years.

  [0] https://appimage.org/

• How to sandbox AppImages ?
  2 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 26 Sep 2023

  I found a similar issue on github and tried this solution but still getting the same error .

• Ask HN: What's the best CLI installation experience you've ever seen?
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Aug 2023

  There is AppImage[1], which packs a lot of stuff into a SquashFS filesystem, appends it to the executable, so everything is in one file.

  [1] https://appimage.org

• Linux users when their preferred app isn't packaged in the main repository
  2 projects | /r/linuxmasterrace | 12 Jul 2023

  Nah i think yall just hating appimage. Real gold standard.

• How to minimize RAM usage during Go binary compilation
  6 projects | /r/golang | 11 Jul 2023

  Although I haven't used plugins feature myself yet, this does sound like the perfect use case for them. Not every patient needs to access every single source. With plugins you can load only the source (or few sources) that they actually need. You can still use something like https://appimage.org/ to give them "a single binary", but will actually contain your slim binary and all the plugins.

• Wrong Opinion About Debian Stable
  1 project | /r/debian | 13 Jun 2023
• AppImages Refuse to Launch After Updates
  1 project | /r/pop_os | 11 Jun 2023

  ```dlopen(): error loading libfuse.so.2 AppImages require FUSE to run. You might still be able to extract the contents of this AppImage if you run it with the --appimage-extract option. See https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/wiki/FUSE for more information```

• How to install application bundle (AppImageKit runtime)
  1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 29 May 2023

  This doesn't look like a squashfs image. Cannot mount AppImage, please check your FUSE setup. You might still be able to extract the contents of this AppImage  if you run it with the --appimage-extract option.  See https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/wiki/FUSE  for more information open dir error: No such file or directory

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