From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 835261396D9 for ; Sun, 5 Nov 2017 14:51:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 771E9E0F4C; Sun, 5 Nov 2017 14:51:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wm0-x244.google.com (mail-wm0-x244.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c09::244]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EF666E0EE0 for ; Sun, 5 Nov 2017 14:51:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wm0-x244.google.com with SMTP id y83so9507410wmc.4 for ; Sun, 05 Nov 2017 06:51:19 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=subject:to:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :in-reply-to:content-language:content-transfer-encoding; bh=hSZqBaGTWpmoL9k5AAXsueCOZdsvo293acpS5QKJHTs=; b=dABOiXEiMAxv99GR7rIw4El+vbsK0rGF9lNue6XPyHoz4uDyfWEB7Sr8IOP6st6bUZ fHx64jkmhA/KHRfmQ0QP7QveQsqoY2cz0yMJSr3ExBt849kS+/3to7FmBLD+BpoxLqha srxCWzMcoI+hH9H3vSIUVV3y5JQgOmpuebUifDFwxTMpCsH0HP3tdZqdjSyCg0u5glXi GdVHDQEgD+zwdeYjU4OLZ/+PkH3JmznUB9b+sbJuiY8x4AFlwj5Tjo0MOX42AqfELAWQ hGgb3yWO2XXiZ+NQDV4x+NPA8ue9ak+MWy0Vc/xHfzjbSu+TB1RZfIj15cdAYVyaziRC gu4Q== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language :content-transfer-encoding; bh=hSZqBaGTWpmoL9k5AAXsueCOZdsvo293acpS5QKJHTs=; b=Kvo+WBsPYHqqa6ObiUOHDY5qHgbzrQNUzO/381Hz+M6Uzrsx/m0fFCaw5MLlDOEjnY brB5hYDvxLMf8ZNXdOsEBU369F22QWEFlan9l9BO/Ww3LnP0UIpKqeqsr5NXWoc0VzYr 34RjqlBohLAT83o9SKlI7cQQFs7mcebJXFi+6TIsVVHdiuMj68CMXzj5P0H+1yroFTM7 a9/jF/S0pRFWblgr0XcO3pitQs5152hXMk+a+mvUqI8jW79ZwVo1pQHkv0ZXysCBIzHD kvSh4urWaIc5gxxlck5a+LFwCFlTxzQYSlJ7uqCGW/WQpn750vzPd3cpRjsziHUlC69P 86rQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AMCzsaUgDnNeGU+zag6z2EOBRJv59tArmgP2y4fOZ1d/l8eR55P6XHqj m0p8PqjBhE2K2Rgc0z/JUgvbcw== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABhQp+QphXRI8xIlAZS4BM2JcgPKYrMcZK7+mvSfdsMM4Q7sQUvf/9mwEd1KEWJQwSJ6YdJcGbIS1g== X-Received: by 10.80.208.10 with SMTP id j10mr16618689edf.194.1509893478667; Sun, 05 Nov 2017 06:51:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from [172.20.0.40] ([197.101.48.133]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id k51sm10737481ede.42.2017.11.05.06.51.17 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 05 Nov 2017 06:51:17 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] AppImage? What's that? To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20171105112031.h7353gaydk3p3pel@solfire> <20171105121102.moefbq7pmkk54dxd@solfire> <20171105134857.igfmhtsksabauycb@solfire> From: Alan McKinnon Message-ID: <20ecdb6a-4ba9-7725-b485-2d3b5216d39d@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2017 16:46:07 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20171105134857.igfmhtsksabauycb@solfire> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 19111ebf-734d-4884-87ff-3cdefd7b42e3 X-Archives-Hash: 2b6f2affdadfdabab8792cacbf7e9222 On 05/11/2017 15:48, tuxic@posteo.de wrote: > On 11/05 07:21, Tom H wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 7:11 AM, wrote: >>> On 11/05 06:29, Tom H wrote: >>>> On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 6:20 AM, wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I got an archive (???) of an Linux application, which >>>>> has the extension "*.AppImage". >>>>> >>>>> What is that? >>>>> >>>>> Is it possible to "unpack" that into something more common? >>>>> How to handle that? >>>> >>>> Does it use this spec? >>>> >>>> https://appimage.org/ >>> >>> Dont know... >>> How can I unpack that to look into it? >> >> From >> https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit >> >> wget "https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/releases/download/continuous/appimagetool-x86_64.AppImage" >> etc... >> > > > ./appimagetool-x86_64.AppImage appimagetool-x86_64.AppImage TestApp/. > WARNING: appstreamcli is missing, please install it if you want to use AppStream metadata > appimagetool-x86_64.AppImage is a file, assuming it is an AppImage and should be unpacked > To be implemented > > unpacking is not implemented yet. Reading only this thread, it looks like an upstream used a horribly incomplete scheme for distribution that isn't even ready for launch. And yet they distribute using it. I would be questioning why I'm using that upstream's project at all, and find something better by an author with more clue. Am I missing something? -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com