appimage

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description	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppImage

AppImage

{% hint style="info" %} Sources

• Upstream prebuilt if it exists & is actively maintained
• Community created prebuilts if official prebuilt doesn't exist & we can't build from source {% endhint %}

Schema

{% hint style="info" %} .pkg: ${PKG_NAME}

.pkg_type: appimage

${SBUILD_PKG} : ${PKG_NAME}.appimage {% endhint %}

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Prerequisites (HOST)

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• Fuse: Required for mounting Filesystems & Images (Can still be run with --appimage-extract-and-run | APPIMAGE_EXTRACT_AND_RUN=1)
• Fonts: Required to display/render Non-English Chars, Emojis, Symbols etc.
• Kernel User NameSpaces: Required for Sandboxing, Security & Performance {% endhint %}

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Sandbox

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• AppImages have no built-in sandboxing
• There exists third party tools like aisap , but we DO NOT RECOMMEND it as it is not actively maintained {% endhint %}

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Quirks

{% hint style="info" %} WARNINGS

• NEVER run strip, objcopy or any other binary rewriting tool as they will often just strip the squashfs|dwarfs archive, only preserving the runtime.
• A typical .appimage file is not a real elf binary, thus will not survive this process.
• On NixOS, you will need to follow: https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Appimage {% endhint %}