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On 05/11/2017 15:48, tuxic@××××××.de wrote: |
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> On 11/05 07:21, Tom H wrote: |
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>> On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 7:11 AM, <tuxic@××××××.de> wrote: |
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>>> On 11/05 06:29, Tom H wrote: |
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>>>> On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 6:20 AM, <tuxic@××××××.de> wrote: |
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>>>>> I got an archive (???) of an Linux application, which |
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>>>>> has the extension "*.AppImage". |
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>>>>> |
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>>>>> What is that? |
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>>>>> |
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>>>>> Is it possible to "unpack" that into something more common? |
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>>>>> How to handle that? |
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>>>> Does it use this spec? |
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>>>> https://appimage.org/ |
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>>> |
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>>> Dont know... |
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>>> How can I unpack that to look into it? |
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>> From |
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>> https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit |
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>> wget "https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/releases/download/continuous/appimagetool-x86_64.AppImage" |
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>> etc... |
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> |
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> ./appimagetool-x86_64.AppImage appimagetool-x86_64.AppImage TestApp/. |
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> WARNING: appstreamcli is missing, please install it if you want to use AppStream metadata |
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> appimagetool-x86_64.AppImage is a file, assuming it is an AppImage and should be unpacked |
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> To be implemented |
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> unpacking is not implemented yet. |
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Reading only this thread, it looks like an upstream used a horribly |
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incomplete scheme for distribution that isn't even ready for launch. |
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And yet they distribute using it. |
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I would be questioning why I'm using that upstream's project at all, and |
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find something better by an author with more clue. |
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Am I missing something? |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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