Waterfox: Provide an AppImage for Linux
Providing an AppImage would have, among others, these advantages:
- Works for most Linux 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
- Just one format for all major distributions
- Works out of the box, no installation of runtimes needed (unlike Snap and Flatpak)
- 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 (unlike Flatpak)
- Can use the same AppImages when dual-booting multiple distributions
Here is an overview of projects that are already distributing upstream-provided, official AppImages.
Please let me know if you are interested and would like me to generate an AppImage.
probonopd
All 30 comments
Ah thanks for bringing this to my attention! This will help a lot with Linux releases. I'll read up on the docs and make some test images, but definitely looks like it'll be better than just the pre-built binaries archived.
MrAlex94
on 20 Mar 2017
You can use the existing pre-built binaries and convert them into an AppImage; in fact this is what I do for my demo Firefox AppImage. See https://github.com/probonopd/AppImages/blob/master/recipes/meta/Firefox.yml
If you are interested, I can do the same for Waterfox.
probonopd
on 20 Mar 2017
Yes that would be awesome if you could!
MrAlex94
on 23 Mar 2017
If memory serves me right, @TheAssassin was recently working on the Firefox yml file, so maybe he could have a look here?
probonopd
on 23 Mar 2017
I have created an AppImage YAML definition for Waterfox.
Wasn't too much work as I was working on basically the same definition for Firefox Developer Edition anyway, so I was able to adopt most of that script's code.
You could further use this as a base for upstream AppImages (e.g. nightlies or continuous integration builds). You could upload the result to your website for future releases, too.
If you have further questions or need assistance in adjusting the definition, join #AppImage on Freenode or on Gitter, there should be someone around who can help you (if not, just stay around a few... hours... or days... it's IRC, so you never know).
TheAssassin
on 24 Mar 2017
Great, thanks a lot!
MrAlex94
on 3 Apr 2017
Any updates here?
Serkan-devel
on 21 Oct 2017
bump
Serkan-devel
on 29 Oct 2017
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Serkan-devel
on 18 Nov 2017
Maybe this could help against https://github.com/MrAlex94/Waterfox/issues/318 and https://github.com/MrAlex94/Waterfox/issues/395 by just swapping appimages out or with appimage-update
Serkan-devel
on 30 Jan 2018
@Serkan-devel you could think about integrating libappimageupdate into the update check. It provides a C++ interface which you can use to check for updates, perform updates, ...
TheAssassin
on 30 Jan 2018
Is appimage available for waterfox? where can I download the file?
ghost
on 28 Feb 2018
Doesn't exist yet, but I'm looking into it
Serkan-devel
on 28 Feb 2018
It's here now => https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/hawkeye116477:/waterfox/AppImage/Waterfox-latest-x86_64.AppImage. It has bad version number, cuz I don't know how to change that on OBS. If i make that locally with recipe method, then version is correct.
hawkeye116477
on 26 Oct 2018
can this be upstreamed?
Serkan-devel
on 26 Oct 2018
can this be upstreamed?
To where? Somewhere other than AppImageHub?
grahamperrin
on 27 Oct 2018
probonopd
on 27 Oct 2018
@probonopd can't find it on there
Serkan-devel
on 27 Oct 2018
Exactly, it _should_ be upstreamed to be there...
probonopd
on 27 Oct 2018
grahamperrin
on 28 Oct 2018
@grahamperrin but what about on the official waterfox download page?
Serkan-devel
on 29 Oct 2018
I'm not a site editor.
grahamperrin
on 31 Oct 2018
@MrAlex94 now that there is a Waterfox AppImage, it would be nice to see it included on the Waterfox homepage.
https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/hawkeye116477:/waterfox/AppImage/Waterfox-latest-x86_64.AppImage.mirrorlist
Typing this from Waterfox on Clear Linux OS (an operating system for which no distribution-provided Waterfox package exists).
probonopd
on 2 Dec 2018
If the appimage is linked to on the official website I think the debian packages should be as well.
hook321
on 11 Dec 2018
I'm piggybacking on this "packaging" topic, since I stumbled upon the seemingly new Snap waterfox-snap in the Snapcraft Store. That seems to be provided by @YamiYukiSenpai via this repository.
Since that Snap doesn't feel very official yet, and there are still many open tasks listed in the repo readme, maybe forces can be joined here?
For reference, here is also a Waterfox-packaging related reddit discussion.
c-s-n
on 18 Oct 2019
@c-s-n please open a seperate issue and not clutter this one
Serkan-devel
on 19 Oct 2019
grahamperrin
on 19 Oct 2019
@grahamperrin please open a seperate issue and not clutter this one
probonopd
on 22 Oct 2019
@probonopd it was direction to the separate discussion; to avoid duplication/multiplication.
grahamperrin
on 23 Oct 2019
ghost
on 14 Sep 2020
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It's here now =>
https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/hawkeye116477:/waterfox/AppImage/Waterfox-latest-x86_64.AppImage. It has bad version number, cuz I don't know how to change that on OBS. If i make that locally with recipe method, then version is correct.