Request: AppImage or Flatpak

[trymeouteh]

Please make an AppImage or a Flatpak that can be easily downloaded and installed on any distro. I would personally prefer an AppImage for portability.

[probonopd]

Providing an AppImage would have, among others, these advantages:

• Applications packaged as an AppImage can run on many distributions (including Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, CentOS, elementaryOS, Linux Mint, and others)
• One app = one file = super simple for users: just download one AppImage file, make it executable, and run
• No unpacking or installation necessary
• No root needed
• No system libraries changed
• Works out of the box, no installation of runtimes needed
• Optional desktop integration with appimaged
• Optional binary delta updates, e.g., for continuous builds (only download the binary diff) using AppImageUpdate
• Can optionally GPG2-sign your AppImages (inside the file)
• Works on Live ISOs
• Can use the same AppImages when dual-booting multiple distributions
• Can be listed in the AppImageHub central directory of available AppImages
• Can double as a self-extracting compressed archive with the --appimage-extract parameter
• No repositories needed. Suitable/optimized for air-gapped (offline) machines
• Decentralized

Here is an overview of projects that are already distributing upstream-provided, official AppImages.

If you have questions, AppImage developers are on #AppImage on irc.freenode.net.

[byoso]

Now Nord Manager (since 2.0.0) can be installed on any distro with the geninstaller's installer. Geninstaller is a recent developpment, so, if you experience any issue with the provided installer, you'll be welcome to report the problem.

[dim6003]

Agree, standard .deb/.rpm packages would be welcomed too.