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 project

Creating AppImage packages

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

Scripts and utilities

Side projects

"AM" Application Manager

Package manager, database & solutions for all AppImages and portable apps for GNU/Linux!

"AM"/"AppMan" is a set of scripts and modules for installing, updating, and managing AppImage packages and other portable formats, in the same way that APT manages DEBs packages, DNF the RPMs, and so on... using a large database of Shell scripts inspired by the Arch User Repository, each dedicated to an app or set of applications.

The engine of "AM"/"AppMan" is the "APP-MANAGER" script which, depending on how you install or rename it, allows you to install apps system-wide (for a single system administrator) or locally (for each user).

"AM"/"AppMan" aims to be the default package manager for all AppImage packages, giving them a home to stay.

You can consult the entire list of managed apps at portable-linux-apps.github.io/apps.

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 three tools to generate my AppImage packages:

• ArchImage is a script that builds AppImages containing a portable Arch Linux container, named "JuNest". The final AppImage package is compatible with all the GNU/Linux distributions
• AppImaGen is 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. This method is closest to those commonly used among AppImage packagers
• Snap2AppImage is an experimental script to convert Snap packages to portable AppImages, good for standalone programs and Electron-based apps available on the Canonical/Ubuntu's Snapstore

To recap, in order of "efficiency":

Name	AppImages base	Efficiency (%)	Stars
ArchImage	Arch Linux	90%
AppImaGen	Ubuntu LTS or Debian	50%
Snap2AppImage	Snap packages	10%

Also I use "Conty" sometime, if an AppImage is realy hard to create (see Bottles)

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

Application	Source / Based on...	Stars
Abiword	Arch Linux - JuNest (ArchImage)
Aisleriot	Arch Linux - JuNest (ArchImage)
AnyDesk	Upstream .deb package
Avidemux	Arch Linux - JuNest (ArchImage)
Bottles	Arch Linux - Conty
Celestia "Enanched"	Standalone upstream AppImage, edited
Chrome Stable/Beta/Unstable	Upstream .deb packages
Chromium Stable/Candidate/Beta/Edge	Snap
Dropbox	Upstream portable archive
Emacs	Arch Linux - JuNest (ArchImage)
Evince	Arch Linux - JuNest (ArchImage)
Gedit	Arch Linux - JuNest (ArchImage)
GIMP Stable/Developer/Git/Hybrid	Arch Linux - JuNest (ArchImage)
GNOME Boxes	Arch Linux - JuNest (ArchImage)
Gnome-calculator	Arch Linux - JuNest (ArchImage)
Gnumeric	Arch Linux - JuNest (ArchImage)
Handbrake	Arch Linux - JuNest (ArchImage)
Hypnotix	Arch Linux - JuNest (ArchImage)
KDE-games	Arch Linux - JuNest (ArchImage)
KDE-utils	Arch Linux - JuNest (ArchImage)
Microsoft Edge Stable/Beta/Dev	Upstream .deb packages
MPV	Arch Linux - JuNest (ArchImage)
OBS-Studio	Arch Linux - JuNest (ArchImage)
ocenaudio	Arch Linux - JuNest (ArchImage)
Opera Stable/Beta/Dev	Upstream .deb packages
PowerShell	Upstream portable archive
Rhythmbox	Arch Linux - JuNest (ArchImage)
Sideload	Debian - elementaryOS .deb package
Skype	Snap
SpaceCadet Pinball (AUR)	Arch Linux - JuNest (ArchImage)
Spotify	Upstream .deb package
Steam	Arch Linux - Conty
SuperTuxKart	Upstream portable archive
Torcs	Arch Linux - JuNest (ArchImage)
Transmission-gtk	Arch Linux - JuNest (ArchImage)
VirtualBox KVM	Arch Linux - JuNest (ArchImage)
Vivaldi Stable/Snapshot	Upstream .deb packages
VLC Stable/Git	Arch Linux - JuNest (ArchImage)
WhatsApp Nativefier	Upstream portable archive
WPS Office	Upstream .deb package
Yandex Browser Stable/Beta/Corporate	Upstream .deb packages
Database of pkg2appimaged packages*	Various 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)