appimageutil

A command-line utility to generate AppImage

appimageutil command usage

• show help of this command

  appimageutil -h
  appimageutil --help

• show version of this command

  appimageutil -v
  appimageutil --version

• show basic information about this software

  appimageutil about

• show basic information about your current running operation system

  appimageutil sysinfo

• create a new AppImage file from AppDir

  appimageutil create app.AppDir
  
  appimageutil create app.tar.gz
  
  appimageutil create app/ -o xx.AppImage -- -comp xz -b 16384 -Xdict-size 100% -root-owned -noappend

environment variables

• APPIMAGEUTIL_VERBOSE

  assign to 1 if you want to enable verbose mode.

• APPIMAGEUTIL_CORE_PATH

  assign to the full path of appimageutil-core. default to &/core, & represents the directory where the appimageutil command is located in.

• SSL_CERT_FILE

  assign to the cacert.pem file path. default to &/core/cacert.pem, & represents the directory where the appimageutil command is located in.

  curl -LO https://curl.se/ca/cacert.pem
  export SSL_CERT_FILE="$PWD/cacert.pem"

  In general, you don't need to set this environment variable, but, if you encounter the reporting the SSL certificate is invalid, trying to run above commands in your terminal will do the trick.

appimageutil-core

appimageutil-core is a set of essential command-line tools and resources that are used by appimageutil.

command-line tools:

• xxd
• gpg
• tree
• find
• curl
• bsdtar
• sysinfo
• zsyncmake
• mksquashfs
• appstreamcli
• desktop-file-validate

resources:

• cacert.pem