Guide to convert Arch Linux Packages To AppImage.
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It’s an interesting idea. But why wouldn’t I just use the arch package instead of an appimage?
Pretty cool
A good use case for this I would think would be if working on another distro that doesn’t have the package or is using a different version of the program that is missing features you are used to.
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As the article pointed out “You may find an interesting package that is only available in AUR and want to use it on a different Linux platform, say Fedora. This is where Arch2Appimage utility comes in help.”
It depends on how fast the conversion is (I’ve not tried it)- another usecase if your friend use different linux platform & you quickly convert & share with your friend.
I’ve got Fedora on one of my computers, and I admit, if there were something in the AUR I was dying to have, this will be a cool thing to try. So far everything has been in the repos/rpmfusion or as a flatpak already. But I’ll definitely keep this in the old noggin in case there’s something missing.
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I tried it… https://www.dropbox.com/s/00rbl99subuaca4/guayadeque-x86_64.AppImage?dl=0
I wish I had done it before wxwidgets got upgraded…
A developer may need to work on multiple versions of the same application.
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Yesterday DT posted a video on it
Love his final comment…