I like to play with Portable Linux Apps, in particular AppImage packages.

I'm just an enthusiast who likes to write scripts for GNU/Linux, for fun.

I started writing small scripts for personal use, in my free time... and then sharing them here, on Github.

Main projects

Creating AppImage packages

• My Tools
• My AppImage packages
• My 32-bit AppImage packages

Scripts and utilities

Side projects

I wrote two bash scripts to install and manage the applications: AM and AppMan. Their dual existence is based on the needs of the end user.

"AM" Application Manager
If you want to install system-wide applications on your GNU/Linux distribution in a way that is compatible with Linux Standard Base (all third-party apps must be installed in dedicated directories under /opt and their launchers and binaries in /usr/local/* ...), just use "AM" Application Manager. This app manager requires root privileges only to install / remove applications, the main advantage of this type of installation is that the same applications will be available to all users of the system.

"AppMan"
If you don't want to put your app manager in a specific path but want to use it portable and want to install / update / manage all your apps locally, download "AppMan" instead. With this script you will be able to decide where to install your applications (at the expense of a greater consumption of resources if the system is used by more users). AppMan is portable, all you have to do is write the name of a folder in your $HOME where you can install all the applications available in the "AM" database, and without root privileges.

Sometimes my Appimage packages are built from a base of precompiled packages, whether they are in .deb or .tar format it doesn't matter, as long as they know how to work by themselves.

Unfortunately it's not always that simple, so we need to download more dependencies from external packages.

When a program requires multiple external libraries to work, I use two tools to generate my AppImage packages:

• AppImaGen, a script that builds AppImages from Ubuntu PPAs or Debian repositories. The final packages are GLIBC compatible for the chosen Debian release or the previous (not the latest, not the oldest) Ubuntu LTS;
• ArchImage, another script that builds a kind of AppImage package I've named "ArchImage", being them built on top of "JuNest", the lightweight Arch Linux based distro that runs, without root privileges, on top of any other Linux distro. In this way the final package is compatible with all the GNU/Linux distributions.

To recap:

Name	AppImages base	Efficiency (%)	Stars
AppImaGen	Ubuntu LTS or Debian.	50%
ArchImage	Arch Linux.	90%

This is the list of all AppImage packages I build in my repositories for both "AM" and "AppMan".

Application	Source / Based on...	Stars
Abiword	JuNest, Arch Linux (ArchImage)
Aisleriot	JuNest, Arch Linux (ArchImage)
AnyDesk	Official .deb package
Avidemux	Debian (Testing, "deb-multimedia")
Bottles	Debian Stable & AUR
Celestia (Enanched)	JuNest, Arch Linux (ArchImage)
Chrome Stable/Beta/Unstable	Official .deb packages
Chromium	JuNest, Arch Linux (ArchImage)
Dropbox	Standalone build for GNU/Linux
Emacs	JuNest, Arch Linux (ArchImage)
Evince	JuNest, Arch Linux (ArchImage)
Firedragon	JuNest, Arch Linux (ArchImage)
Gedit	JuNest, Arch Linux (ArchImage)
GIMP Stable/Developer/Git/Hybrid	JuNest, Arch Linux (ArchImage)
Gnome-calculator	JuNest, Arch Linux (ArchImage)
Gnome-Tweaks (EXPERIMENTAL)	JuNest, Arch Linux (ArchImage)
Gnumeric	JuNest, Arch Linux (ArchImage)
Handbrake	JuNest, Arch Linux (ArchImage)
KDE-games	JuNest, Arch Linux (ArchImage)
KDE-utils	Debian (Stable)
Microsoft Edge Stable/Beta/Dev	Official .deb packages
MPV	JuNest, Arch Linux (ArchImage)
OBS-Studio	JuNest, Arch Linux (ArchImage)
ocenaudio	Official .deb package
Opera Stable/Beta/Dev	Official .deb packages
PowerShell	Standalone build for GNU/Linux
qBittorrent	JuNest, Arch Linux (ArchImage)
Rhythmbox	JuNest, Arch Linux (ArchImage)
Sideload	Official .deb package (ElementaryOS)
Skype	Official .deb package
SpaceCadet Pinball (AUR)	JuNest, Arch Linux (ArchImage)
Spotify	Official .deb package
Steam (EXPERIMENTAL)	Official .deb package
SuperTuxKart	Standalone build for GNU/Linux
Torcs	JuNest, Arch Linux (ArchImage)
Transmission-gtk	JuNest, Arch Linux (ArchImage)
Vivaldi Stable/Snapshot	Official .deb packages
VLC Stable/Git	JuNest, Arch Linux (ArchImage)
WhatsApp Nativefier	Standalone build for GNU/Linux
WPS Office	Official .deb package
Database of pkg2appimaged packages*	Various .deb sources

*NOTE, the last one in the table above is a database containing small random apps and games that you may need. The AppImages contained in this repository are:

All of these applications have been built since September 2021, and (if my time will be enough) I will build even more AppImages. Just browse my repositories to find other experimental projects I'm working on. My main workflow is based on the ArchImage method since summer 2023, and I believe I will continue to work this way until a better solution than this is discovered.

I hope you enjoy them!

32-bit GNU/Linux distributions are increasingly rarely used, but this does not mean they should be excluded. If you use Debian Stable for i386 (recommended) or higher, I have created a specific repository for those applications, all manageable through AM and AppMan.

Application	Source / Based on...	Stars
32-bit AppImage packages database	Various .deb sources

The 32-bit AppImages contained in this repository are:

I have not included them in the main repositories of their 64-bit counterparts to avoid confusion.

Project	Stars
Firefox for Linux, installation scripts
Flatpak installer, a custom action

Project	Stars
Arch-deployer (deprecated)