appimagehandler

A package-manager-like tool for integrating AppImages into the desktop environment

Installation

appimagehandler can install itself. To integrate it:

• Download an AppImage for the program from the releases;
• Run chmod +x appimagehandler_<arch>.AppImage to make it executable
• Run ./appimagehandler_<arch>.AppImage integrate appimagehandler_<arch>.AppImage to integrate it into your home directory.

By default, appimagehandler integrates AppImages into the ~/.opt/appimagehandler/ directory. To change this directory for a given operation, use the --store argument.

To easily use appimagehandler and other integrated AppImages from the command line, add ~/.opt/appimagehandler/bin to your $PATH.

Updating AppImages

To update AppImages, you will additionally need appimageupdatetool integrated, which can be found here. Make sure you download and integrate the cli version, "appimageupdatetool", not the gui version "AppImageUpdate". Then, the appimagehandler update command can be used to update updatable AppImages.