AppImage-Builder 1.0 released

Tool for packing applications (and all of their dependencies) inside an AppImage ISO file.

I dig AppImage’s.

Simple .ISO files that contain not only a Linux executable… but the majority or dependencies needed to run that executable. Makes Linux applications highly portable, and easy to “package” to run on a variety of different distributions.

Many Linux applications, such as the Kdenlive video editor, provide an AppImage .ISO file as the default way of distributing themselves. You can find over a thousand of them over on AppImageHub.com… and most of them work, right out of the box, on darn near every modern Linux distribution.

Pretty darn nifty.

If there’s any single problem with AppImage, it would be that packaging up an application — with all of the dependencies that need to be included — isn’t always a super simple process.

That reality is slowly changing thanks to a project named, appropriately, “appimage-builder”. Which, as it happens, just released their “1.0” version. From the project GitHub page:

It's a tool for packing applications along with all of its dependencies using the system package manager to obtain binaries and resolve dependencies. It creates a self-sufficient and portable bundle using the AppImage format.

Features:

• Real GNU/Linux packaging (no more distro packaging)

• Simple recipes

• Simple workflow

• Backward and forward compatibility

• One binary, many target systems.

You can grab the big 1.0 release of “appimage-builder” — as an AppImage, naturally — from the GitHub page.

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