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c/linux · by kiol@lemmy.world · 323d

How are you managing and auto-updating your appimages?

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 pts · 323d (2 replies)

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

kiol@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 322d

Cool, I've got that part covered.

9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 322d

Oof

divingdonkey@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 323d (3 replies)

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

kiol@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 323d (2 replies)

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 pts · 323d (1 reply)

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 pts · 322d

Cool, both are nice tools!

jlow@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 323d (2 replies)

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.

Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 322d

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.

kiol@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 322d

Thanks

Montagge@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 322d (1 reply)

I use Gearlever

kiol@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 322d

Thanks

Samueru_sama@programming.dev · 2 pts · 322d (1 reply)

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 pts · 322d

Thanks!