Installing the command-line executable

Assuming you have Rust/Cargo installed, run this command in a terminal:

cargo install appimage_updater

It will make the appimage_updater command available in your PATH if you've allowed the PATH to be modified when installing Rust. cargo uninstall appimage_updater uninstalls.

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Readme

AppImage Updater

A CLI tool to look for AppImages in your $PATH and call appimageupdatetool to update them

GIF Image with demo of the tool

Install

Build, and install to $HOME/.cargo/bin in one command via cargo:

cargo install --locked --git https://github.com/pirafrank/appimage_updater

Or download binary from the latest release.

Update

Download the new binary version and overwrite old one.

Or, if installed via cargo, re-run the cargo install command.

Build

git clone https://github.com/pirafrank/appimage_updater.git
cd appimage_updater
cargo build

Build a release

Build a release for your current platform triple.

Currenly supported triples are listed in rust-toolchain.toml file.

just release
# add to path, e.g.:
# cp ./target/release/appimage_updater ~/.local/bin/

Run

# 4 threads by default
appimage_updater

# 2 threads
appimage_updater -j 2

Cross-compilation

Option 1 (via `cross`)

cargo install cross
just release_all

Option 2 (via `cargo`)

Add target to rustup:

rustup target add aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu

then cross-compile via cargo:

sudo apt-get install gcc-aarch64-linux-gnu
cargo build --release --target aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu