Please provide an AppImage for Linux on GitHub Releases

probonopd commented 5 years ago

https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat.Electron/blob/ef2d2c9a378f7b774ce83951ee8224e71ce771d9/src/main/updates.js#L44

Please provide an AppImage for Linux on GitHub Releases, thanks.

kskarthik commented 4 years ago

Please provide an appimage

asjur commented 3 years ago

Can we have an answer regarding this? AppImage is universally supported on Linux. It should be the de-facto solution when you do not wish to provide distribution specific packages.

syldrathecat commented 2 years ago

Here is a script that will download the snap and re-package it as an AppImage: https://gist.github.com/syldrathecat/2ecbd8aa15b3e92ebdcf85d2fcbdc383

After running the script, rocketchat-desktop-3.6.0.AppImage is created in the current directory.

jq and unsquashfs are available in most package managers (apt install jq squashfs-tools on Debian)
appimagetool is available here: https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/releases (cp appimagetool-x86_64.AppImage /usr/local/bin/appimagetool)

The AppImage may not be as portable as expected, and the script may break with future revisions or removal of snap store APIs.

I hope this helps someone!

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