AppBundle

AppBundle is a portable executable packaging format and AppImage alternative, created by @xplshn. Applications are packed into single portable files with embedded dependencies, supporting both dwarfs and squashfs filesystems.

pkg_type: appbundle

Features

• Easy to create and modify
• Embedded dependencies
• Self-contained structure
• Prebuilts available from AppBundleHUB

Prerequisites

• FUSE — required for mounting
• Fonts — for rendering non-Latin characters and emojis
• User Namespaces — for sandboxing

Quirks

DANGER

• Never run strip, objcopy, or any binary rewriting tool on AppBundles. They will destroy the embedded squashfs|dwarfs archive, leaving only the runtime stub.
• A .appbundle file is not a real ELF binary.

Example SBUILD

#!/SBUILD
_disabled: false

pkg: "myapp"
pkg_id: "github.com.user.myapp"
pkg_type: "appbundle"
ghcr_pkg: "user/myapp"
description: "My application"
provides:
  - "myapp"
src_url:
  - "https://github.com/user/myapp"
x_exec:
  host:
    - "aarch64-linux"
    - "x86_64-linux"
  shell: "bash"
  pkgver: |
    curl -qfsSL "https://api.github.com/repos/user/myapp/releases/latest" | jq -r '.tag_name'
  run: |
    soar dl "https://github.com/user/myapp" --match "appbundle" -o "./${PKG}" --yes

See Also

• pelf — AppBundle creator
• AppBundleHUB