https://github.com/ivan-hc/AppImaGen

A script that generates a custom AppImage from Debian or from a PPA of your choice for the previous (not the oldest) and still supported Ubuntu LTS
https://github.com/ivan-hc/AppImaGen

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A script that generates a custom AppImage from Debian or from a PPA of your choice for the previous (not the oldest) and still supported Ubuntu LTS

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/ivan-hc/AppImaGen
• Owner: ivan-hc
• Created: 2023-05-05T05:06:28.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-08-21T23:38:16.000Z (5 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-22T01:13:53.199Z (5 months ago)
• Topics: appimagetool, pkg2appimage
• Language: Shell
• Homepage: https://portable-linux-apps.github.io
• Size: 61.5 KB
• Stars: 16
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml

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README

        
# AppImaGen

A script that generates a custom AppImage from Debian or from a PPA of your choice for the previous (not the oldest) and still supported Ubuntu LTS

# Usage

### Download it and made it executable

    wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ivan-hc/AppImaGen/main/appimagen

    chmod a+x ./appimagen

    ./appimagen [package1] [package2] [package3] [package4] ...

During the build the script will ask you to choose between Debian or the previous Ubuntu LTS:

- By choosing **debian** the script will ask if you what branch you want choose (stable, testing, oldstable, oldoldstable, unstable...);

- By choosing **ubuntu** the script will ask if you want add one or more PPAs.

Example, suppose you want to build the Chromium web browser from the ppa:[savoury1/chromium](https://launchpad.net/~savoury1/+archive/ubuntu/chromium) including the language pack:

    ./appimagen chromium-browser chromium-browser-l10n

    

Then choose `2` (i.e. "Ubuntu"), press `Y` to add a PPA and copy/paste `savoury1/chromium` (more PPAs are listed at [https://launchpad.net/~savoury1](https://launchpad.net/~savoury1)).

During the build you will choose if you want to include [libunionpreload](https://github.com/project-portable/libunionpreload), if you want to rely also on the system libraries and if the AppImage has a binary executable into another `$PATH`.

# About this project

"AppImaGen" is a script extracted and compiled from my workflows in building [my AppImage packages](https://github.com/ivan-hc#my-appimage-packages) for ["AM" Application Manager](https://github.com/ivan-hc/AM-Application-Manager) and [AppMan](https://github.com/ivan-hc/AppMan) and redistributed for you as a standalone script.