[Cin] Creating AppImage

mat mnieuw at zap.a2000.nl
Wed Feb 9 22:19:47 CET 2022


On Wed, 2022-02-09 at 15:45 +0100, Andrea paz via Cin wrote:
> Yes, appimage uses squashfs and then compresses it with gzip or
> something else. This is done, for example, with the command:
> 
> appimagetool --comp .../squashfs-root /tmp/my-appimage.appimage
> 
> (see: https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit)
> 
> But appimagetool is not available for all distros; for example I
> couldn't find it for Fedora. Also linuxdeploy is used to
> create/compress an appimage, but reading the manual I don't really
> understand how to do it...

You can download the appimagetool for your enviroment from
https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/releases

MatN



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