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How are you managing and auto-updating your appimages? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 month ago by kiol@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.world
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Wondering about best practices for managing and auto-updating appimages. Have to use a few and Discover appstore (Kubuntu) does not support them, so I've been meaning to setup a way to auto-update them. Currently have them living in ~/appimage directory.

Wouldn't mind basically adding to a command or cron for something like apt-get get upgrade && flatpak update && something-appimage

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[–] kugmo@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

appimages are programs i want on a specific version. they do not get updated.

[–] kiol@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Cool, I've got that part covered.

[–] divingdonkey@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You might want software like this: https://github.com/TheAssassin/AppImageLauncher

[–] kiol@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks, is pretty nice. Part I'm still unclear on is how to auto-update all appimages, as opposed to individual selection. Would ideally add to a basic script to update appimages after regular package manager. See this issue. I do see ail-cli is used, so learning more about how to use it. See this issue on documentation

[–] divingdonkey@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My bad, mixed it up with this: https://github.com/mijorus/gearlever

This has a "check for updates" function, I've never bothered using it though.

[–] kiol@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Cool, both are nice tools!

[–] jlow@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Bazzite theorically auto updates but Im not sure it does for me, so I just start the system updater that updates, system, flatpaks, brew etc from time to time when I plan to reboot anyway.

[–] kiol@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Thanks

[–] Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Bazzite has GearLever built in for this.

Also, I think they update using topgrade, which doesn't support gearlever afaik. I always manually have to update in gearlever.

[–] Montagge@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I use Gearlever

[–] kiol@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Thanks

[–] Samueru_sama@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

https://github.com/ivan-hc/AM

Wouldn’t mind basically adding to a command or cron for something like apt-get get upgrade && flatpak update && something

iirc topgrade has support for AM, so you can do all at once with AM included.

[–] kiol@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Thanks!