On Wednesday, February 9, 2022, mnieuw--- via Cin < [email protected]> wrote:
> 1. Change an AppImage. > I have not tested re-compression, but as far as I know now an AppImage > is a normal zip file with the internal layout specified. Can't you just > zip the changed directory structure? it seems appimage uses squashfs, not plain zip.. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64564820/how-to-use-appimagetool-to-create-package-to-run-on-older-linux (see log there) and there is header (script?) mounting image if you make it executable.. and this header somewhat limited to gzip-compressed squashfs? https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/issues/1101 > > 2. I cannot create a full AppImage on Mint 19.3 at the moment, because > the manual does not build there any more. I can build an AppImage > without the manual. > > MatN > > On Wed, 9 Feb 2022 10:03:00 +0100 > Andrea paz via Cin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > @MatN > > Thanks to Glitterball3 > > (https://www.cinelerra-gg.org/forum/postid/2022/), Phyllis added a > > section in the manual on how to unzip an appimage so you can make > > additions and changes to it. To complete the process, I found a way to > > recompress the folders back into an appimage using the "appimagetool" > > tool. However, this program is not in the repositories of all distros > > (Fedora, for example), so it's not universal enough to put in the > > manual. We can also do compression with "linuxdeploy", but I don't > > know how to do it. Do you have any idea how to use linuxdeploy to > > recompress the "squashfs-root" folder into a new appimage? > > -- > Cin mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.cinelerra-gg.org/mailman/listinfo/cin >
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