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AppImageInfo

Provides a convenient set of functions to retrieve information about the application inside an AppImage file. By inspecting and merging the contents of the ".Desktop" and ".appstream.xml" files into JSON formatted document.

It has two interfaces:

  • libappimageinfo (pure C interface)
  • appimageinfotool (cli application)

An example of the JSON formatted output can be found here.

Target

It's meant to be used by third party tools like software centers, file managers or others to improve the user experience when dealing with AppImages.

Requires/Depends

  • libstdc++
  • boost algorithms
  • boost filesystem
  • boost program_options
  • libxml2
  • libopenssl
  • binutils
  • libappimage