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Download as an AppImage

This repository is intended to showcase theAppImage format andAppImageKit software used to create AppImages. It contains thepkg2appimage tool and some recipes to generateAppImages (portable Linux apps) usingAppImageKit.

There aremultiple ways to generate AppImages. Upstream projects are encouraged to produce their ownupstream packaging AppImages, likemany projects already do.

Some branded applications are unfortunately not provided in AppImage format by their authors yet, and are not allowed to be redistributed. However, if there are suitable existing binary packages (either in archive or.deb format or a ppa) then once can to convert these to an AppImage usingpkg2appimage.

For applications for which there is already an existing.yml recipe file, you can simply use the name of the application (without.yml) as an argument. For example, to produce a Spotify AppImage, it is sufficient to do:

wget -c $(wget -q https://api.github.com/repos/AppImageCommunity/pkg2appimage/releases -O - | grep "pkg2appimage-.*-x86_64.AppImage" | grep browser_download_url | head -n 1 | cut -d '"' -f 4)chmod +x ./pkg2appimage-*.AppImage./pkg2appimage-*.AppImage Spotify

.yml recipes tell pkg2appimage where to get the ingredients from, and how to convert them to an AppImage. Study someexamples to see how it works.

To build an AppImage from a local.yml recipe (e.g., during development):

wget -c $(wget -q https://api.github.com/repos/AppImageCommunity/pkg2appimage/releases -O - | grep "pkg2appimage-.*-x86_64.AppImage" | grep browser_download_url | head -n 1 | cut -d '"' -f 4)chmod +x ./pkg2appimage-*.AppImage./pkg2appimage-*.AppImage recipes/XXX.yml

You are invited to contribute to the AppImage format, the AppImageKit tools, and the example AppImages provided by us).

The preferred channel of communication for general questions and remarks is our forum and mailing list athttp://discourse.appimage.org/.

There is also the #AppImage IRC channel on irc.libera.chat - please stay in there for at least 48 hours because we are not all in the same timezone.