https://github.com/pirafrank/appimage_updater

A CLI tool to look for AppImages in your $PATH and call appimageupdatetool to bulk update them
https://github.com/pirafrank/appimage_updater

appimage appimages appimagetool appimageupdate bulk-operation cli linux updater

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A CLI tool to look for AppImages in your $PATH and call appimageupdatetool to bulk update them

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/pirafrank/appimage_updater
• Owner: pirafrank
• License: mit
• Created: 2024-08-29T13:23:03.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2025-02-24T17:42:49.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-08-04T15:00:53.675Z (11 months ago)
• Topics: appimage, appimages, appimagetool, appimageupdate, bulk-operation, cli, linux, updater
• Language: Rust
• Homepage: https://crates.io/crates/appimage_updater
• Size: 128 KB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# AppImage Updater

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A CLI tool to look for AppImages in your $PATH and call appimageupdatetool to update them.

![GIF Image with demo of the tool](./assets/appimageupdater.gif)

## Install

### Binary

Download the binary from [latest release](https://github.com/pirafrank/appimage_updater/releases/latest) and move to `PATH`.

### cargo

```sh

cargo install appimage_updater

```

### binstall

If you have [binstall](https://github.com/cargo-bins/cargo-binstall), you can get the binary and skip compilation.

```sh

cargo binstall appimage_updater

```

### From source

Build and install to `$HOME/.cargo/bin` compiling from source:

```sh

cargo install --locked --git https://github.com/pirafrank/appimage_updater

```

## Update

Download the new binary version and overwrite old one.

If you have installed via `cargo`, then re-run the `cargo install` command.

## Build

```sh

git clone https://github.com/pirafrank/appimage_updater.git

cd appimage_updater

cargo build

```

### Build a release

Build a release for your current platform triple.

Currenly supported triples are listed in `rust-toolchain.toml` file.

```sh

just release

# add to path, e.g.:

# cp ./target/release/appimage_updater ~/.local/bin/

```

## Run

```sh

# 4 threads by default

appimage_updater

```

```sh

# 2 threads

appimage_updater -j 2

```

## Cross-compilation

### Option 1 (via `cross`)

```sh

cargo install cross

just release_all

```

### Option 2 (via `cargo`)

1. Add target to rustup:

```sh

rustup target add aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu

```

2. then cross-compile via `cargo`:

```sh

sudo apt-get install gcc-aarch64-linux-gnu

cargo build --release --target aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu

```