AppImage

What is AppImage

 

System Prep

Ubuntu 22.04 / 24.04

AppImage expects libfuse2. Ubuntu by default installed libfuse3.

apt install libfuse2

 

Applications

Neovim / nvim

The script below downloads the 0.10.1 version appimage of nvim and places files where they need to be. Make sure you run this as root as most of the commands need to be elevated.

NVIMURL="https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/download/v0.10.1/nvim.appimage" &&
OUTFILE="nvim.0.10.1.appimage" &&
wget $NVIMURL -O $OUTFILE &&
chmod 755 $OUTFILE &&
./$OUTFILE --appimage-extract &&
chown -R root:root $OUTFILE squashfs-root &&
cp squashfs-root/usr/share/applications/nvim.desktop /usr/share/applications/nvim.desktop &&
cp squashfs-root/nvim.png /usr/share/icons/ &&
rm -rf squashfs-root &&
mkdir -p /usr/local/bin &&
cp $OUTFILE /usr/local/bin/ &&
ln -s /usr/local/bin/nvim.0.10.1.appimage /usr/local/bin/nvim.appimage &&
ln -s /usr/local/bin/nvim.appimage /usr/local/bin/nvim &&
ls -l /usr/local/bin/nvim* /usr/share/applications/nvim.desktop /usr/share/icons/nvim.png

 

 

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