Turning portable builds into appimages is very easy. #369
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You mean from the database? You should perform a generic search of all scripts that contain ".tar", ".zip" or ".deb" (without asterisks)... or also those that does not contain the lowercased "*mage" (the latter is with asterisk). If they wont, none prevent you to buildAppImages by yourself... none of my 60+ appimages is official (and for some of these I contatcted the owners). In the case they wont, you can proceed with a repo marked as Unofficial and keep it until none reclaims. |
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It was more of a broad questions for "popular" linux apps that still release as portable builds, but what you said works for me as well to start looking. |
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I already know the answer of many of them:"we have not enough resources... I'm ok like this... there is already a Flatpak..." 😆 I jocke, but many developers have a bad opinion about AppImages, because they not always work, they "still rely on libfuse2" and "can't be updated"... all prejudices. "AM" can guarantee for the last two, but not for the first... much depends on how the developer bundles it. Also Blender's and SuperTuxKart's developers were contrary, they have a portable version of their program, and for them its enough. Also Telegram is just a standalone binary, not an AppImage. |
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@ivan-hc Oh if you knew the hot takes that I saw recently about appimages, check my recent issue history if you want to find out. 🙃 |
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@ivan-hc I began trying to host the deadbeef appimage, I uploaded the script but now I'm stuck with the github actions, I would really appreciate any help please! |
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You don't need it, if you create continuous builds, its enough to rename the exported AppImage using the "VERSION" variable you must include in your scrips in the middle of the steps. Please see my scripts and read where and when I write "VERSION=" for the first time. |
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in the case of es-de, you pointed me to this command: you have to do something like this, once and ever, so you have no more to add the version manually. All my scripts work like this. |
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Yeah I ended up getting the build date from the deadbeef nightly builds and adding it to the title of the appimage, while the ryu appimages contain the version in the url so it was easy to awk that out. |
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Turns out that the deadbeef download page changes the date when a new build is released to X hours ago:
And that broke my build since now it displays a nonsense as the |
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Wellcome to github actions |
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It works! Thank you so much. |
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@ivan-hc I didn't notice that the creator of amdgpu_top themselves made a pr fixing another issue with it lmao. It took 3 people to fix that application! lol. |
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@ivan-hc Can you tell me if this works on your system? https://github.com/Samueru-sama/Zenity-GTK3-AppImage Simple run It works on my Arch system and the appimage gets built on ubuntu, it is the first time I'm actually compiling something instead of taking already released binaries, so I hope that it will run in Debian. (I will add the AM script once I know that it works well on other distros). |
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Nope means "zenity.ui: no such file or directory" |
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@ivan-hc Oh no. (It also happens on my end lol) I will need to patch how zenity gets build, because the gimp appimages ship a zenity that doesn't have this issue. hopefully I can figure it out. |
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@ivan-hc I was able to fix the issue on my end, just had to fork zenity, apply these patches and rebuild the appimage lol. One possible issue is that it is being build on ubuntu latests instead of the oldest still supported LTS release, which means that is a very likely glibc incompatibility for old distros, however ninja complains when building on 20.04 that Once you have free time please test it again 😇 |
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By now all of you are bombarding me with notifications on github, so much so that I no longer have a life. So, yeah, I've a lot of "free" time. |
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We can stop it? Nope Just joking |
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@ivan-hc I think you noticed already, I'm trying to build an MPV AppImage using linuxdeploy: https://github.com/Samueru-sama/mpv-AppImage/blob/main/mpv-AppImage.sh When I make on my Artix (yes moved away from arch), it does work on my PC at least: https://mega.nz/file/kYoFBADB#E4unK8LT-hw1yt8IZeCmgBEnXDYgKeNAkypeKAFeTm8 However the appimage that gets made using the ubuntu runner doesn't work on my PC: https://github.com/Samueru-sama/mpv-AppImage/releases/tag/continuous And by not working, that is the CLI works, but trying to play any video results in the video player never showing up. I don't know if this is an issue of the appimage or that compiling mpv on debian based distros is hard. EDIT: I think I found why it doesn't work on my PC lol
EDIT2: It works now 🥳 Now I just need to figure out how to get this to compile on ubuntu 20.04, as the meson complains that several dependencies are too old to build mpv there. |
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Btw @ivan-hc what will happen with the appimage of yours of mpv 😅? I want to add the one I made but I don't know if it should have the same name, or it should be like libreoffice where it asks you which one to use, etc. I think your archimage works on distros older than ubuntu 20.04 so you could add that to the description to that one. |
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I was actually hoping to give all the credit to you... but now that you point it out (the fact that mine works on older distributions)... ...why not to let the user choose what of the two? write a script in the style of "libreoffice" and write a description. |
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@ivan-hc Yeah that sounds like the better idea, if you are willing to maintain the archimage still because I remember that you complained that you are maintaining too many repos lately. I'll go and eat and start working on the mpv script later in the night. |
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for exampe:
I'll let you choose the syntax |
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true, this was my goal, to delegate others... but if I discover a workflow run for "keepalive" that works as it should, it can be still updated also if I die, so if for some reasons it may not work anymore, other people can always choose the one that works |
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I just made these two scripts for Ryujinx and DeaDBeeF they only release as portable builds instead of appimages, just copied the way Ivan builds his appimages to make them:
https://pastebin.com/1cewSaxP
https://pastebin.com/NpzeYPgW
I commented in their respective github issues about appimage support, hopefully they implement this, if they don't I will look into hosting them myself in a few days.
Edit: ended up releasing them:
https://github.com/Samueru-sama/Ryujinx-AppImage
https://github.com/Samueru-sama/DeaDBeef-AppImage
What other apps come as portable builds but not as appimages so I can try to convert them to appimage?
EDIT: Here are all the appimages made so far:
https://github.com/Samueru-sama/Zenity-GTK3-AppImage (This one was tricky as zenity needed patches on its source code)
https://github.com/Samueru-sama/Ryujinx-AppImage
https://github.com/Samueru-sama/DeaDBeef-AppImage (Also added the DeaDBeeF stable build)
https://github.com/Samueru-sama/rofi-AppImage
https://github.com/Samueru-sama/htop-AppImage
However the AppImages that get compiled are being compiled on ubuntu-latests instead of 20.04, as I get meson errors when trying to compile on 20.04EDIT: Fixed!
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