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From: tuxic@××××××.de
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] AppImage? What's that?
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2017 13:49:17
Message-Id: 20171105134857.igfmhtsksabauycb@solfire
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] AppImage? What's that? by Tom H
1 On 11/05 07:21, Tom H wrote:
2 > On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 7:11 AM, <tuxic@××××××.de> wrote:
3 > > On 11/05 06:29, Tom H wrote:
4 > >> On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 6:20 AM, <tuxic@××××××.de> wrote:
5 > >>>
6 > >>> I got an archive (???) of an Linux application, which
7 > >>> has the extension "*.AppImage".
8 > >>>
9 > >>> What is that?
10 > >>>
11 > >>> Is it possible to "unpack" that into something more common?
12 > >>> How to handle that?
13 > >>
14 > >> Does it use this spec?
15 > >>
16 > >> https://appimage.org/
17 > >
18 > > Dont know...
19 > > How can I unpack that to look into it?
20 >
21 > From
22 > https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit
23 >
24 > wget "https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/releases/download/continuous/appimagetool-x86_64.AppImage"
25 > etc...
26 >
27
28
29 ./appimagetool-x86_64.AppImage appimagetool-x86_64.AppImage TestApp/.
30 WARNING: appstreamcli is missing, please install it if you want to use AppStream metadata
31 appimagetool-x86_64.AppImage is a file, assuming it is an AppImage and should be unpacked
32 To be implemented
33
34 unpacking is not implemented yet.

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] AppImage? What's that? Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>