Packaging Guide

This chapter shows application developers how to produce AppImages, how to make them updateable and how to digitally sign them.

Contents:

• Introduction to Packaging
• Overview
  • Packaging from source
  • Converting existing binary packages
  • Using the Open Build Service
  • Using appimage-builder
  • Manually creating an AppDir
• Packaging from source
  • Packaging native binaries
  • linuxdeploy user guide
  • appimage-builder user guide
• Converting binary packages
  • pkg2appimage
  • appimage-builder
• Optional Resources and Features
  • Making AppImages updateable
  • Signing AppImages
  • AppStream metadata
• Hosted services
  • Bundling your Travis CI builds as AppImages
  • Using the Open Build Service
• Manual packaging
  • Creating an AppDir manually
  • No hard-coded paths
  • Creating an AppImage from the AppDir
• Testing your AppImage
  • Using testappimage
  • Using the Docker-based appimage-testsuite
• Distributing AppImages
  • Hosting AppImages
  • Complying with licenses
  • Do not put “Linux” into the Appimage file name
  • Do not put AppImages into other archives
  • Making your AppImages discoverable
• Environment variables
  • Type 1 AppImage runtime
  • Type 2 AppImage runtime