Appimage?

[Thatoo]

Would it be possible to release an appimage on gitlab of your software for those who don't have/want to use flatpack or depend (be traced) on flathub?

[nokyan]

Hi, I'm sorry but I'm not planning to do and maintain an AppImage release any time soon, though if someone else wants to do that, feel free.

[cs-mshah]

I'm in favour of AppImage too.

[Adesin-fr]

+1 Installing flatpak + all the shares resources is many hunders MB just to allow a small hundreds KB program to run !? Feels like I'm running under MS Windows ;)

[pktiuk]

@Adesin-fr
But Runtimes are often shared among apps. And org.gnome.Platform is one of the most popular, so there is a very high chance, that you already have an app which uses it.

@nokyan
Would you accept a Pull Request which automatically builds an AppImage and uploads it after creating GitHub release? I could implement this one.

[Lukas-Heiligenbrunner]

Being able to get resources from the AUR with a pkgbuild would be great for me! What do you think of that? :)

[Adesin-fr]

@Adesin-fr But Runtimes are often shared among apps. And org.gnome.Platform is one of the most popular, so there is a very high chance, that you already have an app which uses it.

Sure, But I don't have any package installed with flatpak : I had to install flatpak just to run Resources !

[nokyan]

@nokyan Would you accept a Pull Request which automatically builds an AppImage and uploads it after creating GitHub release? I could implement this one.

Sure

[pktiuk]

Do all of these dependencies have to be so new?

dependency('gtk4', version: '>= 4.8.0')
dependency('libadwaita-1', version: '>= 1.4.0')

For example Ubuntu 22.04 has gtk4 4.6.2 in repos and building AppImage on Ubuntu runner would require compiling entire gtk4.

[nokyan]

Do all of these dependencies have to be so new?

dependency('gtk4', version: '>= 4.8.0')
dependency('libadwaita-1', version: '>= 1.4.0')

For example Ubuntu 22.04 has gtk4 4.6.2 in repos and building AppImage on Ubuntu runner would require compiling entire gtk4.

Yes, they do. Resources requires GtkInscription which is a gtk ≥ 4.8 feature and AdwOverlaySplitView which is a libadwaita ≥1.4 feature.

[xoir]

@pktiuk any progress? Having this as an Appimage would be awesome!

[pktiuk]

For now not. AppImage should be compiled on Ubuntu 20.04 (to ensure that glib is not too new), and there are a lot of packages in repositories which are too old for resources app, so they have to be compiled from source to meet dependencies. This is a daunting task, so I want to try to build appimage inside of flatpak runtime. I haven't tried this yet.

[pktiuk]

How could I open a required flatpak runtime and launch some commands inside of it?
I am looking for command which would work like docker run --volume /project_path:/project_path -it some_docker_image bash.

I tried to use Flatpak for vscode , but command Open a build terminal mounted project directory in read-only mode

pawel@pop-os:~/PROJEKTY/resources$ touch p
touch: cannot touch 'p': Read-only file system

[nokyan]

How could I open a required flatpak runtime and launch some commands inside of it? I am looking for command which would work like docker run --volume /project_path:/project_path -it some_docker_image bash.

I tried to use Flatpak for vscode , but command Open a build terminal mounted project directory in read-only mode

pawel@pop-os:~/PROJEKTY/resources$ touch p
touch: cannot touch 'p': Read-only file system

If you only want to access the runtime itself, try flatpak run --command="bash" org.gnome.Sdk. If you've built Resources locally as a flatpak and you want to access its specific runtime, that'd be flatpak-builder --run .flatpak/repo build-aux/net.nokyan.Resources.Devel.json "bash", with .flatpak/repo being the folder in which your local build resides in.

[pktiuk]

Your answer helped me a lot.

I have a basic instruction which could be used as a base for building AppImage

flatpak-builder --socket=fuse --run .flatpak/repo build-aux/net.nokyan.Resources.Devel.json "bash"

mkdir /tmp/AppDir
meson . build --prefix=/tmp/AppDir
ninja -C build install

wget https://github.com/linuxdeploy/linuxdeploy/releases/download/continuous/linuxdeploy-x86_64.AppImage
wget https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/releases/download/continuous/appimagetool-x86_64.AppImage
chmod +x linuxdeploy-x86_64.AppImage
chmod +x appimagetool-x86_64.AppImage

./linuxdeploy-x86_64.AppImage --appdir /tmp/AppDir
./appimagetool-x86_64.AppImage AppDir/

But there is a problem with running AppImages inside of Flatpak

dlopen(): error loading libfuse.so.2

AppImages require FUSE to run. 
You might still be able to extract the contents of this AppImage 
if you run it with the --appimage-extract option.

Extracting it not helped

 ./squashfs-root/usr/bin/linuxdeploy --appdir /tmp/AppDir
linuxdeploy version 1-alpha (git commit ID 6a583d5), GitHub actions build 196 built on 2023-11-01 01:03:40 UTC
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::logic_error'
  what():  subprocess failed (exit code 1)
Aborted (core dumped)