installing simplescreenrecorder breaks "appman list"

[joedefen]

If I appman install simplescreenrecorder, then appman files --byname shows (just the relevant line):

◆  simplescreenrecorder  |  0.4.4%2B1.ppa1.trusty1  |  appimage        |  46    MiB

Then appman list is broken showing no uninstalled apps and just (in my case):

YOU HAVE INSTALLED 12 APPLICATIONS OUT OF 2146 AVAILABLE

 ◆ bitwarden 2022.5.1
 ◆ firefox 129.0.2
 ◆ freefilesync 13.7
 ◆ inkscape 1.3.2
 ◆ krita 5.2.3
 ◆ libreoffice 7.6.7.2
 ◆ nvim 0.10.1
 ◆ obs-studio 30.2.1
/home/joe/.appman/appman/modules/database.am: line 350: printf: `B': invalid format character
 ◆ simplescreenrecorder 0.4.4
(END)

Apparently, the "%2B" in the simplescreenrecorder version field breaks appman list.

[ivan-hc]

thanks for this report, update and retry

[ivan-hc]

if you face other issues, I have rewrote the patch a67a9da

[joedefen]

Thanks. Looks fine now.

BTW, recent updates to "appman list" format (i.e., adding ascii escape sequences around the app names) broke "vappman". I fixed that by stripping all escape sequences out of the output of "appman list" before parsing.

Think about reducing its assumptions, I guess vappman could run "appman list", ignore the output, then suck up ~/.local/share/AM/x86_64-apps which appears relatively clean ... but am I trading one set of bad assumptions for another (like architecture?). Any suggestions?

[ivan-hc]

Think about reducing its assumptions, I guess vappman could run "appman list", ignore the output, then suck up ~/.local/share/AM/x86_64-apps which appears relatively clean ... but am I trading one set of bad assumptions for another (like architecture?). Any suggestions?

sorry, I've not understand this last part, what kind of suggestion you need?

[joedefen]

The question is what is the "best" way for an "outside" (python) program to get the list of installed and uninstalled apps per appman? I need the app name, short description, and whether installed for each app.

Currently, I'm using "appman list" and "appman files --byname" which has been broken once so far by changes in the formatting of "appman list" to include colors. So, is there a better way that likely would have fewer breakages?

[ivan-hc]

I'm not good at all with python, but functions for the lists are really simple, maybe you can convert them to made them work with the hosted lists directly instead of using the inbuilt -l option of AppMan.

Anyway, colors in lists are managed by function "_colors"

_colors() {
	awk '{
		printf "%s \033[32m%s\033[0m", $1, $2
		{$1 = ""; $2 = ""; print $0;}
	}'
}

and it is referenced two times, in the above functions "_pretty_list" and "_pretty_list_compat", in the database.am module, the first three functions under this line

AM/modules/database.am

Line 247 in a67a9da

# LIST/QUERY

maybe you should find a way to disable the _colors function

[Samueru-sama]

The question is what is the "best" way for an "outside" (python) program to get the list of installed and uninstalled apps per appman? I need the app name, short description, and whether installed for each app.

Currently, I'm using "appman list" and "appman files --byname" which has been broken once so far by changes in the formatting of "appman list" to include colors. So, is there a better way that likely would have fewer breakages?

There is very likely a way to tell python to ignore ansi escape codes. WIth fzf it was simply passing the --ansi flag.