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Package desktop applications as AppImages that run on common Linux-based operating systems, such as RHEL, CentOS, openSUSE, SLED, Ubuntu, Fedora, debian and derivatives. Join #AppImage on irc.libera.chat

18 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 1 story, 17 comments · first 2016-02-27 · latest 2021-11-23

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  1. …you use CMake, which I guess you do, you can integrated it using CPack and an external generator: https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/issues/160#issuecomm...
    comment by cromka · 2021-11-23 · in Flatpak Is Not the Future
  2. …[0] would be enough for mostly all Linux users. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppImage [1] https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/wiki/Similar-project...
    comment by app4soft · 2021-08-29 · in An Open Source Multi-Player Starship Bridge Simulator for Linux
  3. …install JetBrains products through Snap particularly delightful (they don’t support flatpak). [1]: https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/wiki/Similar-project...
    comment by Jaxkr · 2021-04-01 · in Cheers to 10 Years
  4. Would you provide AppImage[0] package for Linux? [0] https://github.com/appimage/appimagekit
    comment by app4soft · 2019-06-30 · in TeXmacs 1.99.1
  5. …For deployment built files back to GitHub as assets also use uploadtool Shell-script.[2] [0] https://github.com/appimage/AppImageKit [1] https://github.com/probonopd/linuxdeployqt [2] https://github.com/probonopd/uploadtool
    comment by app4soft · 2019-06-14 · in Comparing LibreOffice Versions: AppImage, Flatpak, and Snap
  6. I would suggest directly linking to the source[1] as the answer in your link is not up-to-date. [1] https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/wiki/Similar-project...
    comment by noname120 · 2018-10-15 · in Snap, Flatpak and AppImage, package formats compared
  7. Here's a very detailed comparison: https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/wiki/Similar-project...
    comment by teamhappy · 2018-07-23 · in Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on Linux
  8. …was yet another war between snap and flatpak. Everyone flaunts some superiority or another - https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/wiki/Similar-project... however, it would be incredible to have a single format
    comment by sandGorgon · 2018-07-11 · in Argh-P-M – Dissecting the RPM file format (2016)
  9. bubblewrap works for sandboxing AppImages: https://github.com/probonopd/AppImageKit/issues/152
    comment by probonopd · 2016-06-03 · in Flatpak – Standalone Apps for Linux
  10. Actually the sandbox used for Flatpak can also be used to run AppImages already now: https://github.com/probonopd/AppImageKit/issues/152
    comment by probonopd · 2016-06-03 · in Flatpak – Standalone Apps for Linux
  11. …file, point to specific runtime dependencies, create package) than to create AppImage apps ( https://github.com/probonopd/AppImageKit/wiki/Creating-AppIm... ). This inclines me towards AppImage, as the whole point is to have the easiest…
    comment by mixedCase · 2016-05-29 · in Flatpak – Standalone Apps for Linux
  12. …break backward compatibility, which it really shouldn't (and in practice, rarely ever did). Or use https://github.com/probonopd/AppImageKit/tree/master/LibcWra...
    comment by probonopd · 2016-02-27 · in AppImage: Linux apps that run anywhere
  13. …folks might mean more traction and maintenance, doesn't it? EDIT: okay, saw https://github.com/probonopd/AppImageKit/wiki/Similar-projec... mentioned below by the author, sorry for the noise.
    comment by ronjouch · 2016-02-27 · in AppImage: Linux apps that run anywhere
  14. …updated easily. Since AppImageKit uses delta updates, the downloads are very small and efficient. https://github.com/probonopd/AppImageKit/tree/master/AppImag...
    comment by probonopd · 2016-02-27 · in AppImage: Linux apps that run anywhere
  15. …of all AppImageKit is not a package manager. For a comparison with xdg-app and other systems, see https://github.com/probonopd/AppImageKit/wiki/Similar-projec... As for sandboxing, this is definitely an area which we would like to add to…
    comment by probonopd · 2016-02-27 · in AppImage: Linux apps that run anywhere
  16. …that are not part of all of the base systems that the AppImage is intended to run on" [ https://github.com/probonopd/AppImageKit/wiki/Creating-AppIm... ]
    comment by tosseraccount · 2016-02-27 · in AppImage: Linux apps that run anywhere
  17. …in each app bundle. This is where it starts to become a little more complicated than the above, see https://github.com/probonopd/AppImageKit/wiki/Creating-AppIm...
    comment by probonopd · 2016-02-27 · in AppImage: Linux apps that run anywhere