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Please provide AppImage for download #1

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probonopd opened this issue Jan 19, 2018 · 3 comments
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Please provide AppImage for download #1

probonopd opened this issue Jan 19, 2018 · 3 comments

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@probonopd
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Providing an AppImage would have, among others, these advantages:

  • Applications packaged as an AppImage can run on many distributions (including Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, CentOS, elementaryOS, Linux Mint, and others)
  • One app = one file = super simple for users: just download one AppImage file, make it executable, and run
  • No unpacking or installation necessary
  • No root needed
  • No system libraries changed
  • Works out of the box, no installation of runtimes needed
  • Optional desktop integration with appimaged
  • Optional binary delta updates, e.g., for continuous builds (only download the binary diff) using AppImageUpdate
  • Can optionally GPG2-sign your AppImages (inside the file)
  • Works on Live ISOs
  • Can use the same AppImages when dual-booting multiple distributions
  • Can be listed in the AppImageHub central directory of available AppImages
  • Can double as a self-extracting compressed archive with the --appimage-extract parameter

Here is an overview of projects that are already distributing upstream-provided, official AppImages.

If you have questions, AppImage developers are on #AppImage on irc.freenode.net.

@probonopd
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@mortbopet
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Finally got around to setting up the continuous deployment through Travis. Amazing tool that you've built, and it is going to be a great pleasure to not have to worry about deployment on Linux distributions any longer.

@probonopd
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Thank you very much @mortbopet. Small issues (can easily be fixed): the *.desktop file is lacking a Categories= entry. Please see AppImage/appimage.github.io#2.

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