AppImage-Builder 1.0 released

Date:
Thu, 05 May 2022 00:26:13 GMT

Description:
Tool for packing applications (and all of their dependencies) inside an AppImage ISO file.

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I dig AppImage s.

Simple .ISO files that contain not only a Linux executable but the majority
or dependencies needed to run that executable. Makes Linux applications highly portable, and easy to package to run on a variety of different distributions.

Many Linux applications, such as the Kdenlive video editor , provide an AppImage .ISO file as the default way of distributing themselves. You can find over a thousand of them over on AppImageHub.com and most of them work, right out of the box, on darn near every modern Linux distribution.

Pretty darn nifty.

If theres any single problem with AppImage, it would be that packaging up an application with all of the dependencies that need to be included isnt always a super simple process.

That reality is slowly changing thanks to a project named, appropriately, appimage-builder . Which, as it happens, just released their 1.0 version. From the project GitHub page :

It's a tool for packing applications along with all of its dependencies using the system package manager to obtain binaries and resolve dependencies. It creates a self-sufficient and portable bundle using the AppImage format.

Features:

Real GNU/Linux packaging (no more distro packaging)

Simple recipes

Simple workflow

Backward and forward compatibility

One binary, many target systems.

You can grab the big 1.0 release of appimage-builder as an AppImage, naturally from the GitHub page .

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Link to news story:
https://lunduke.substack.com/p/appimage-builder-10-released


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