AppImages that bundle *everything*

[aferrero2707]

As suggested in issue #224 I am trying to create a GIMP recipe that bundles all libraries, without blacklisting.
The standard recipe is presently not working on some distributions (Kubuntu 16.04 LiveCD for example), and I hope that the full bundling will solve such incompatibilities.

I have followed the example for sigil (https://github.com/probonopd/AppImages/blob/master/recipes/sigil/Recipe), but somehow I still cannot get the appimage to run correctly. In particular, the gimp executable crashes with a

free(): invalid next size (normal)

error that I cannot really interpret.

The full-bundling recipe can be found here: https://gist.github.com/aferrero2707/aea9aa96648078b306d6034daaf0372d

Does anyone have an idea how to fix that?

Thanks in advance!

[probonopd]

Don't bundle everything, it is neither recommended not supported. I also have issues with it.

[darealshinji]

If you really need newer versions of libc6, libstdc++6 or similar base libraries, running an AppImage inside a chroot might be an option.

[probonopd]

Doesn't a chroot need root?

[darealshinji]

schroot doesn't. But you need to be root to set it up. So... yeah.
Isn't it possible to use fuse to setup a chroot without root rights?

[probonopd]

...or use something like fakechroot

[probonopd]

or proot as is used by https://github.com/fsquillace/junest

[probonopd]

Also check https://github.com/lvml/makeaoi, a tool that bundles "everything"

[probonopd]

Another option may be to edit everything with patchelf so that absolutely no libraries get loaded from the system anymore (check with LD_DEBUG=libs!), and then in AppRun invoke the application like so:

"$APPDIR"/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.23.so "$APPDIR"/usr/bin/appstreamcli "$@"

Seems to have worked for me where all other options have failed me.

[probonopd]

Another option that automates this:

https://github.com/Intoli/exodus#how-it-works

[probonopd]

https://intoli.com/blog/exodus-2/