[Cin] Creating AppImage

[Andrew Randrianasulu]

On Wednesday, February 9, 2022, mnieuw--- via Cin <
cin at lists.cinelerra-gg.org> wrote:

> 1. Change an AppImage.
> I have not tested re-compression, but as far as I know now an AppImage
> is a normal zip file with the internal layout specified. Can't you just
> zip the changed directory structure?


it seems appimage uses squashfs, not plain zip..

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64564820/how-to-use-appimagetool-to-create-package-to-run-on-older-linux

(see log there)

and there is header (script?) mounting image if you make it executable..
and this header somewhat limited to gzip-compressed squashfs?

https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/issues/1101


>
> 2. I cannot create a full AppImage on Mint 19.3 at the moment, because
> the manual does not build there any more. I can build an AppImage
> without the manual.
>
> MatN
>
> On Wed, 9 Feb 2022 10:03:00 +0100
> Andrea paz via Cin <cin at lists.cinelerra-gg.org> wrote:
>
> > @MatN
> > Thanks to Glitterball3
> > (https://www.cinelerra-gg.org/forum/postid/2022/), Phyllis added a
> > section in the manual on how to unzip an appimage so you can make
> > additions and changes to it. To complete the process, I found a way to
> > recompress the folders back into an appimage using the "appimagetool"
> > tool. However, this program is not in the repositories of all distros
> > (Fedora, for example), so it's not universal enough to put in the
> > manual. We can also do compression with "linuxdeploy", but I don't
> > know how to do it. Do you have any idea how to use linuxdeploy to
> > recompress the "squashfs-root" folder into a new appimage?
>
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