Gear Lever is really cool as well: https://flathub.org/apps/it.mijorus.gearlever
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Looks like Gear Lever is more actively maintained too; thanks for sharing!
I love how gnome apps look so neat and simple. Never knew about this one. Thank you.
keep older versions installed or replace them with the latest release
This functionality does not seem to be present in AppImageLauncher.
AppImageLauncher caused me problems in the past, similar to in this post.
So I switched to appimaged and have never looked back.
An implementation of AppImage tools written in Go by the inventor of the AppImage format.
After uninstalling AppImageLauncher, I had to make sure that ~/.config/systemd/user/default.target.wants/appimagelauncherd.service was also removed!
BTW the last release of AppImageLauncher is from 2020!
Good looking out. I installed this and verified it's working, but does this automatically start at start up? I can't seem to get systemctl enable to work on it.
According to the uninstall instructions here: https://github.com/probonopd/go-appimage/blob/master/src/appimaged/README.md#initial-setup
appimaged should create the everything itself in order for auto start to work.
e.g. systemctl --user status appimaged.service says that the service is enabled for me.
I would follow the installation instructions and if that does not work, the uninstall instructions in reverse to create the service yourself (probably with systemctl --user enable --now appimaged.service)
Oh awesome, yeah I was missing the user tag! Yeah all working now, thank you :)
This app is great, I've used it for a few months. I used to hate dealing with appimages, now I don't even think about them.
Nope, no thank you... I'm not touching anything other than native, AUR or Flatpak packages. AppImage has only been an inelegant and overall inferior alternative in my experience. The Windows experience, with Linux portability issues. "Find an installer online from some website, have it do whatever the hell it wants, polluting my home folder with random crap and hope it's not a virus" with essentially zero advantages over Flatpak or even Snap.
What makes Flatpak so good? Honest question. It is a new package manager for me, I have mostly been on Linux server, not desktop. For all my use cases Flatpak has never been mentioned, I've always used apt-get until I installed Ubuntu as a desktop OS and it comes with Snap. The next thing I see is Flatpak > Snap and no mention of apt-get.
It's not some miracle packaging system and while Flatpak-installed programs tend to start just as fast as native ones, I consider it inferior for most cases. Its two big advantages are that Flatpaks have a runtime they specify and depend on. It gets downloaded and installed automatically if missing when you install a Flatpak. So you're much less likely to run into issues where a program won't run on your system because of an incompatibility with a missing, or newer version of some library. Each Flatpak also gets installed in its own fake environment and is essentially a sandbox when you run the program. You can use a program named Flatseal to give each Flatpak access to specific directories or functionalities, or restrict it further. But the one big negative is that this runtime uses a lot of disk space. ~800MB per runtime.
It tends to work really well and I've been told that years ago a guy would use this packaging system to bundle pirated windows games with a preconfigured version of wine, which made them run out of the box, with zero tinkering. On top of essentially being sandboxed and unable to access your real home folder, internet, camera or microphone. Just to illustrate its versatility. It also kind of already won the war when Steam Decks started using Flatpak as their main packaging system.
Never had it work right. 90% of the time it just prompts again or fails to run entirely.
Not sure if I'm using the same package or just a similar one. I've been annoyed at all the snaps, flatpacks, appimages, etc. for a while now. I just want to update from the repo and not end up with a bunch of slow, broken, poorly integrated alternatives on my computer. Being able to properly manage app images with a tool like this made the alternate distribution formats so much more tolerable. Now when I install something I pray that I'll find an app image if it's not in the repos!
I mostly used apt-get but when I installed Ubuntu as a desktop OS, I used their store until I understood that Snaps were not always the officially packaged versions. The same thing with Flatpaks. I wanted to install Sublime Text so I looked to Flathub and found a package by Sublime HQ Pty Ltd. Imagine my surprise when went to Sublimes own website to saw that they offer it via apt-get (on Ubuntu/Debian), they even say on their forum that they do not provide via Flatpak or Snap.
Someone just uploaded a package using a name that looks official, while not actually being the owner of the product.