NixAppImage

AppImages created from NixOs Derivations & FHS

• Author: @ralismark + @Azathothas + Others

• Project Page: https://github.com/pkgforge/nix-appimage

• Described as An AppImage created using a Nix-Bundler like pkgforge/nix-appimage & DavHau/nix-portable

• Sources: NixOS Packages

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Schema

.pkg: ${PKG_NAME}

.pkg_type: nixappimage

${SBUILD_PKG} : ${PKG_NAME}.nixappimage

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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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Sandbox

NixAppImages have built-in sandboxing, run SHOW_HELP=1 to see available options.

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Quirks

KNOWN ISSUES

• LibGL: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/9415

• Size: About 2-5x larger than other formats, but guarantee absolute portability.

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 .nixappimage file is not a real elf binary, thus will not survive this process.