aim

aim is a AppImage installer. Make you love your AppImage!

Features

• Fast & small: GoLang♥️, and use //go:embed for frontend.
• Natively integrated: You can simply double-click any .AppImage in your file explorer to install them.
• Immutable paths: Applications will be isolated under <AppName>/<SHA256>.
• Desktop friendly: Automatically copies icons and .desktop!

Build

1. Build the Web UI

   cd web
   pnpm install
   pnpm run build
   cd ..

2. Build the Go CLI binary

   go build -o aim ./cmd/aim

Usage

1. First time? Install binary, and register aim to be the default handler for all .AppImage files:

# Install
sudo mv aim /usr/local/bin/

# Register
aim --register

2. General use After registration, simply double-click any .AppImage file in your system file browser, or trigger it via the command line:

aim /path/to/downloaded/software.AppImage

Your default web browser will instantly pop up the installation guide!