appimagetool

This is an experimental implementation of the AppImage command line tool, appimagetool, in Go, mainly to see what is possible. It can also do, using the deploy verb, what linuxdeployqt does.

Installation and usage

Assuming you are using a 64-bit Intel machine (amd64, also known as x86_64), you can use our pre-compiled binaries. To try it out:

wget -c https://github.com/$(wget -q https://github.com/probonopd/go-appimage/releases/expanded_assets/continuous -O - | grep "appimagetool-.*-x86_64.AppImage" | head -n 1 | cut -d '"' -f 2)
chmod +x appimagetool-*.AppImage
./appimagetool-*.AppImage -s deploy ./AppDir/usr/share/applications/*.desktop # Bundle EVERYTHING
# or 
./appimagetool-*.AppImage deploy ./AppDir/usr/share/applications/*.desktop # Bundle everything expect what comes with the base system
# and
VERSION=1.0 ./appimagetool-*.AppImage ./AppDir # turn AppDir into AppImage

https://github.com/probonopd/go-appimage/releases/tag/continuous has builds for 32-bit Intel, 32-bit ARM (e.g., Raspberry Pi), and 64-bit ARM.

Recognized env vars

QTDIR: root directory for the Qt installation to copy shared libraries from, e.g. /usr/lib/qt6/

Features

Implemented

Creates AppImage
If running on GitHub, determines updateinformation, embeds updateinformation, signs, and writes zsync file
Simplified signing
Automatic upload to GitHub Releases
Prepare self-contained AppDirs using the deploy verb
Bundle GStreamer
Bundle Qt
Bundle Qml
Obey excludelist (unless invoked in self-contained a.k.a. "bundle everything" mode)

Envisioned

Bundle QtWebEngine (untested)
Bundle Python
GitLab support
OBS support
...

Building

If for whatever reason you would like to build from source:

scripts/build.sh appimagetool