AppImage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppImage

Schema

.pkg: ${PKG_NAME}

.pkg_type: appimage

${SBUILD_PKG} : ${PKG_NAME}.appimage

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Prerequisites (HOST)

• Fuse: Required for mounting Filesystems & Images

• Fonts: Required to display/render Non-English Chars, Emojis, Symbols etc.

• Kernel User NameSpaces: Required for Sandboxing, Security & Performance

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Quirks

WARNINGS

• NEVER run strip, objcopy or any other binary rewriting tool as they will often just strip the squashfs|dwarfs archive, only preserving the runtime.

• A typical .appimage file is not a real elf binary, thus will not survive this process.