Package-to-appimage

Tool for conversion DEB and RPM packages into appimage format

About

AppImages are a well known and quite popular format for distributing applications from developers to end users.

Package-to-appimage is designed for automatic conversion of popular types of packages into appimage format. This is possible by using linuxdeploy for creation of appimages and docker for isolation of building.

Using docker allows you to convert a package of any format and vendor regardless of your distribution. The following distributions are currently supported:

• ALT Linux
• Fedora
• OpenSUSE
• CentOS
• Mageia
• Ubuntu
• Debian

Usage

Help command output:

   --package [package.rpm, package.deb]     specify the package to repackage
   --plugin [plugin]                        specify the plugin to use
                                            available plugins - qt gtk ncurses gstreamer
   --mount-directory                        specify directory for mounting into docker
   --kde                                    use for applications with kde. Includes some libraries in the image

   /--use-existants-container               use existance container, you need to create it before with "package-to-appimage-create-docker-image"
   \-E

Example of usage:

~/Projects/package-into-appimage/package-to-appimage --package /tmp/xfce4-terminal-0.8.10-alt1.x86_64.rpm --plugin gstreamer -E --mount-directory /tmp/mnt

Usage of "-E" parameter is highly recomended. Warning, it creates new docker images on your computer.

Troubleshooting

• Before running the script, make sure the docker system is running and the user is allowed to run it.