<br><br>On Wednesday, February 9, 2022, mnieuw--- via Cin <<a href="mailto:cin@lists.cinelerra-gg.org">cin@lists.cinelerra-gg.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">1. Change an AppImage.<br>
I have not tested re-compression, but as far as I know now an AppImage<br>
is a normal zip file with the internal layout specified. Can't you just<br>
zip the changed directory structure?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>it seems appimage uses squashfs, not plain zip.. </div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64564820/how-to-use-appimagetool-to-create-package-to-run-on-older-linux">https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64564820/how-to-use-appimagetool-to-create-package-to-run-on-older-linux</a></div><div><br></div><div>(see log there) </div><div><br></div><div>and there is header (script?) mounting image if you make it executable.. and this header somewhat limited to gzip-compressed squashfs? </div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/issues/1101">https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/issues/1101</a></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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2. I cannot create a full AppImage on Mint 19.3 at the moment, because<br>
the manual does not build there any more. I can build an AppImage<br>
without the manual.<br>
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MatN<br>
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On Wed, 9 Feb 2022 10:03:00 +0100<br>
Andrea paz via Cin <<a href="mailto:cin@lists.cinelerra-gg.org">cin@lists.cinelerra-gg.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> @MatN<br>
> Thanks to Glitterball3<br>
> (<a href="https://www.cinelerra-gg.org/forum/postid/2022/" target="_blank">https://www.cinelerra-gg.org/<wbr>forum/postid/2022/</a>), Phyllis added a<br>
> section in the manual on how to unzip an appimage so you can make<br>
> additions and changes to it. To complete the process, I found a way to<br>
> recompress the folders back into an appimage using the "appimagetool"<br>
> tool. However, this program is not in the repositories of all distros<br>
> (Fedora, for example), so it's not universal enough to put in the<br>
> manual. We can also do compression with "linuxdeploy", but I don't<br>
> know how to do it. Do you have any idea how to use linuxdeploy to<br>
> recompress the "squashfs-root" folder into a new appimage?<br>
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