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Cleanest way to maintain AppImage installations? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago by SkullHex2@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I have installed Bitwarden through its AppImage, and added a .desktop file to run it easily (and also to use a themed icon). Unfortunately, each time an update comes out, I need to manually update the file since it points directly to the older version

is there anything that can be done about this? I know of AppImageLauncher but I don't like it, I'd rather install the Flatpak for Bitwarden if that's the only solution. Another possible approach would be to have a script continuously running in the background, checking if the file Exec points to still exists.. but that imho is not very clean.
Do you have any insight?

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[–] Ropianos@feddit.de 0 points 11 months ago

There is also AppImage Launcher which works nicely for me. It automatically integrates AppImages into the DE (e.g. search and start menu) and a few other nice things.

https://github.com/TheAssassin/AppImageLauncher

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 0 points 11 months ago

I am a big fan or repackaging Appimages as Flatpaks, with appstream metadata, sane package management (not the windows way or simply nothing at all), sandboxing and desktop entries.

There are some repos on Github that do that.

https://github.com/trytomakeyouprivate/Appimage-To-Flatpak

[–] coolmojo@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

You can use AM or AppMan. It is a command line tool for managing AppImages. Including download , install, update and remove.

Have a look at

https://portable-linux-apps.github.io/

It is also open source.