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:bread: Install, update and remove AppImage from your CLI.
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# Bread ![:bread:](./.github/bread.svg)



Install, update, remove & run AppImage from GitHub using your CLI. (Fork of [AppImage ClI Tool](https://github.com/AppImageCrafters/appimage-cli-tool))



## Features

- Install from the GitHub Releases

- Automatically Integrate App To Desktop When Installing/Updating

- Run Applications From Remote Without Installing Them

- Update with ease



## Getting Started



### Installation



  Arch Linux & it's Derivatives

  


  
you can use this step if your distribution does provide libappimage v1.0.0 or greater, which is the case on Arch Linux & it's Derivatives, kaOS, KDE Neon, Parabola Linux


  
install libappimage dependency


  
pacman -S libappimage


  
then install bread


  
sudo curl -L https://github.com/pegvin/bread/releases/download/v0.7.2/bread-0.7.2-x86_64 -o /usr/local/bin/bread && sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/bread



  Debian & it's Derivatives

  


  
you can use this step if your distribution doesn't provide libappimage v1.0.0 or greater, which is the case on Debian & it's derivatives


  
get the appimage containing libappimage v1.0.3


  
sudo curl -L https://github.com/pegvin/bread/releases/download/v0.7.2/bread-0.7.2-x86_64.AppImage -o /usr/local/bin/bread && sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/bread



***Any version of libappimage will work with bread but it is recommended to use v1.0.0 or greater, You can also Refer to this [list](https://repology.org/project/libappimage/versions) to check what version of libappimage your Distribution provides.***



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## Removal



Just Remove the binary

```bash

sudo rm -v /usr/local/bin/bread

```



**NOTE** this won't delete the app you've installed.



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## Usage



  NOTE

  


  
Often there are many times when the GitHub user and repo both are same, for example libresprite, so in this case you can just specify single name like this bread install libresprite, this works with all the commands



  Install a application

  


  
To install an Application from GitHub you can use the install command where user is the github repo owner and repo is the repository name


  
bread install user/repo


  
To install an application from a different Tag name you can specify the tag name too


  
bread install user/repo tagname



  Run a application from remote

  


  
If you want to run a application from remote without installing it you can use the run command


  
bread run user/repo


  
You can pass CLI arguments to the application too like this


  
bread run user/repo -- --arg1 --arg2


  
You can clear the download cache using clean command bread clean, Since all the applications you run from remote are cached so that it isn't downloaded everytime



  Remove a application

  


  
you can remove a installed application using the remove command


  
bread remove user/repo



  Update a applicationn

  


  
You can update a application using the update command


  
bread update user/repo



  
if you just want to check if update is available you can use the --check flag


  
bread update user/repo --check



  
if you want to update all the applications you can use the --all flag


  
bread update --all



  
the --check & --all flag can be used together


  
bread update --all --check



  
the -n or --no-pre-release flag can be used to disable updates for pre-releases.


  
bread update --no-pre-release



  Search for an application

  


  
You can search for a application from the AppImage API


  
bread search "Your search text"



  List all the installed application

  


  
You can list all the installed applications using list command


  
bread list


  
If you also want to see the SHA1 Hashes of the applications listed, you can pass the -s or --show-sha1 flag


  
bread list --show-sha1


  
If you want to see the GitHub release tag name -t or --show-tag flag


  
bread list --show-tag



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### Bugs

- Icons not showing in menus until there's a system reboot

- Update Command Crashing



### Limits

- Bread uses GitHub API to get information about a repository and it's release, but without authentication GitHub API limits the request per hour.



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## Tested On:

- Ubuntu 20.04 - by me

- Debian 11 - by me

- Manjaro Linux - by me

- Arch Linux - by [my brother](https://github.com/idno34)



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## File/Folder Layout

Bread installs all the applications inside the `Applications` directory in your Linux Home Directory `~`, inside this directory there can be also a directory named `run-cache` which contains all the appimages you've run from the remote via the `bread run` command.



In the `Applications` there is also a file named `.registry.json` which contains information related to the installed applications!

In the `Applications` directory there is also a file named `.AppImageFeed.json` which is AppImage Catalog From [AppImage API](https://appimage.github.io/feed.json)



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## Related:

- [Zap - :zap: Delightful AppImage package manager ](https://github.com/srevinsaju/zap)

- [A AppImage Manager Written in Shell](https://github.com/ivan-hc/AM-Application-Manager)

- [The Original Tool Which Bread is Based On](https://github.com/AppImageCrafters/appimage-cli-tool)



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## Building From Source



Make Sure You Have Go version 1.18.x & [AppImage Builder](https://appimage-builder.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) Installed.



Get The Repository Via Git:



```bash

git clone https://github.com/pegvin/bread

```



Go Inside The Source Code Directory & Get All The Dependencies:



```bash

cd bread

go mod tidy

```



Make The Build Script Executable And Run It



```bash

chmod +x ./make

./make --prod

```



And To Build The AppImage Run



```bash

./make appimage

```



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## Build Script

The `make` bash script can build your go code, make appimage out of it, and clean the left over stuff including the genrated builds.



#### Building in Development Mode

This will build the go code into a binary inside the `build` folder

```

./make

```



#### Building in Production Mode

Building for production requires passing `--prod` flag which will enable some compiler options resulting in a small build size.

```

./make --prod

```



#### Building the AppImage

Bread requires libappimage0 for integrating your apps to desktop, which is done via libappimage, to make End user's life easier we package the libappimage with bread and that's why we build the binaries into AppImages so that user doesn't need to install anything.



To make a appimage out the pre built binaries

```

./make appimage

```



#### Get Dependency

To install the dependencies require to build go binary

```

./make get-deps

```



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## Todo

- [ ] Switch To Some Other Language Since Go Module System is Shit

- [ ] Improve UI

- [x] Make AppImages Runnable From Remote Without Installing (Done in v0.3.6)

- [x] Work On Reducing Binary Sizes (Reduced From 11.1MB to 3.1MB)

- [ ] Add 32 Bit Builds (Currently not possible since [DL](https://github.com/rainycape/dl) dependency is not available for 32 bit machines)

- [ ] Add Auto Updater Which Can Update The Bread Itself

- [x] Add `--version` To Get The Version (Done in v0.2.2)

- [x] Mirrors:

  - :heavy_multiplication_x: I Would Like To Introduce Concept Of Mirror Lists Which Contain The List Of AppImages With The Download URL, tho currently i am not working on it but in future i might.

  - [x] I am dropping this idea, tho i've added a search command which can search for appimages from a central server API



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# Thanks