[Gambas-user] Initial support for making AppImage

Claus Dietrich claus.dietrich at freenet.de
Thu Sep 7 10:47:43 CEST 2023 

Hi

I recently managed to generate Gambas AppImages and documented it for 
the German Gambas Club community (sorry - in German only):

https://www.gambas-club.de/download/file.php?id=981

My method:

- Generating the recipe

- Adding required packages

- Starting the generation of the Gambas executable in the IDE which does 
the entire rest automatically and also asks for the password of the 
signature.

Today I tested the new IDE feature with Linux Mint 20.3 Mate with Gambas 
installed via ppa. The packaging failed with below output.

In my practice with Gambas AppImages I always had to add additional 
packages which doesn't seem to be supported yet. Signatures are also not 
supported yet, right? Hope that this can all be fixed.

Best regards

Claus

Speichere CHANGELOG Datei.

==============================================================================

ERSTELLE PAKET FÜR DEBIAN.


Erstelle Build-Verzeichnis.
rm -f '/home/claus/gb-scan-0-1-60_0.1.60'*
rm -Rf '/home/claus/gb-scan-0-1-60-0.1.60'
rm -Rf '/home/claus/gb-scan-0-1-60-0.1.60.orig'
Erstelle Desktop-Datei...
Quelldateien werden ins Debian-Format überführt.
Erstelle Paket...
cd '/home/claus/gb-scan-0-1-60-0.1.60'
dpkg-buildpackage -d -rfakeroot -uc -us
dpkg-buildpackage: Information: Quellpaket gb-scan-0-1-60
dpkg-buildpackage: Information: Quellversion 0.1.60-1
dpkg-buildpackage: Information: Quelldistribution unstable
dpkg-buildpackage: Information: Quelle geändert durch claus <non>
dpkg-buildpackage: Information: Host-Architektur amd64
  dpkg-source --before-build .
  fakeroot debian/rules clean
dh_testdir
dh_testroot
rm -Rf 'src/gb.scan_0.1.60/.gambas'
rm -f 'src/gb.scan_0.1.60/gb.scan_0.1.60'
rm -f build-stamp install-stamp
dh_clean
  dpkg-source -b .
dpkg-source: Information: Quellformat »1.0« wird verwendet
dpkg-source: Information: gb-scan-0-1-60 wird in 
gb-scan-0-1-60_0.1.60.orig.tar.gz gebaut
dpkg-source: Information: gb-scan-0-1-60 wird in 
gb-scan-0-1-60_0.1.60-1.diff.gz gebaut
dpkg-source: Warnung: Löschen des Verzeichnisses 
src/gb.scan_0.1.60/.gambas wird ignoriert
dpkg-source: Information: gb-scan-0-1-60 wird in 
gb-scan-0-1-60_0.1.60-1.dsc gebaut
  debian/rules build
dh_testdir
touch build-stamp
gbc3 -e -a -g -t -x -j1  src/gb.scan_0.1.60
OK
gba3 -o 'src/gb.scan_0.1.60/gb.scan_0.1.60' src/gb.scan_0.1.60
  fakeroot debian/rules binary
dh_testdir
dh_testroot
dh_prep
dh_installdirs
ln -s 'gb.scan_0.1.60' 
"/home/claus/gb-scan-0-1-60-0.1.60"/debian/gb-scan-0-1-60/usr/bin/'gb-scan-0-1-60'
touch install-stamp
dh_testdir -i
dh_testroot -i
dh_installdocs -i
dh_installchangelogs -i
dh_install -i
dh_installmenu
dh_compress -i
dh_fixperms -i
dh_installdeb -i
dh_gencontrol -i
dh_md5sums -i
dh_builddeb -i
dpkg-deb: Paket »gb-scan-0-1-60« wird in 
»../gb-scan-0-1-60_0.1.60-1_all.deb« gebaut.
dh_testdir
  dpkg-genbuildinfo
  dpkg-genchanges  >../gb-scan-0-1-60_0.1.60-1_amd64.changes
dpkg-genchanges: Information: Originalquellen beim Hochladen nicht 
hinzufügen
  dpkg-source --after-build .
dpkg-buildpackage: Information: Binärpakete(e) und Diff hochzuladen 
(Originalquellen NICHT enthalten)

==============================================================================

ERSTELLE PAKET FÜR APPIMAGE.


Erstelle Build-Verzeichnis.
rm -rf '/home/claus/.var/tmp/AppImage/AppDir'
mkdir -p '/home/claus/.var/tmp/AppImage/AppDir/usr/bin'
mkdir -p 
'/home/claus/.var/tmp/AppImage/AppDir/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps'
Generating 'AppImageBuilder' configuration file...
Creating AppImage...
cd '/home/claus/.var/tmp/AppImage'
appimage-builder --skip-script --skip-tests
INFO:main:Running apt deploy
INFO:apt:apt-get update
Ign:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/gambas-team/gambas3/ubuntu una InRelease
Ign:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/gambas-team/gambas3/ubuntu una Release
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Packages
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Packages
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Packages
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Packages
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Packages
Fehl:4 http://ppa.launchpad.net/gambas-team/gambas3/ubuntu una/main 
amd64 Packages
   404  Not Found [IP: 185.125.190.52 80]
Paketlisten werden gelesen... Fertig
W: Das Depot »http://ppa.launchpad.net/gambas-team/gambas3/ubuntu una 
Release« enthält keine Release-Datei.
N: Daten von solch einem Depot können nicht authentifiziert werden und 
deren Nutzung ist daher potentiell gefährlich.
N: Weitere Details zur Erzeugung von Paketdepots sowie zu deren 
Benutzerkonfiguration finden Sie in der Handbuchseite apt-secure(8).
E: Fehlschlag beim Holen von 
http://ppa.launchpad.net/gambas-team/gambas3/ubuntu/dists/una/main/binary-amd64/Packages 
404  Not Found [IP: 185.125.190.52 80]
E: Einige Indexdateien konnten nicht heruntergeladen werden. Sie wurden 
ignoriert oder alte an ihrer Stelle benutzt.
ERROR:root:"apt-get update" execution failed
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/local/bin/appimage-builder", line 8, in <module>
     sys.exit(__main__())
   File 
"/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/appimagebuilder/__main__.py", 
line 50, in __main__
     invoker.execute(commands)
   File 
"/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/appimagebuilder/invoker.py", 
line 29, in execute
     command()
   File 
"/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/appimagebuilder/commands/apt_deploy.py", 
line 46, in __call__
     deployed_packages = apt_deploy.deploy(
   File 
"/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/appimagebuilder/modules/deploy/apt/deploy.py", 
line 39, in deploy
     self._prepare_apt_venv()
   File 
"/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/appimagebuilder/modules/deploy/apt/deploy.py", 
line 48, in _prepare_apt_venv
     self.apt_venv.update()
   File 
"/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/appimagebuilder/modules/deploy/apt/venv.py", 
line 161, in update
     shell.assert_successful_result(_proc)
   File 
"/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/appimagebuilder/utils/shell.py", 
line 35, in assert_successful_result
     raise RuntimeError(
RuntimeError: "apt-get update" execution failed with code 100
Die Paketerstellung ist fehlgeschlagen.
Package.MakeAppImagePackage.2952: Unable to create AppImage.




Am 05.09.23 um 13:03 schrieb Benoît Minisini:
> Hi,
>
> I have just added to the IDE a new package type to the packager 
> wizard: AppImage!
>
> You are welcome to test it and report any problem. I think it won't 
> work easily.
>
> It is not entirely finished. Support for adding extra dependencies and 
> extra files is not done yet.
>
> AFAIK, The AppImage limitations are the following:
>
> - You need the 'appimage-builder' tool. See: 
> https://appimage-builder.readthedocs.io/en/latest/intro/install.html#intro-install
>
> - This tool apparently works only on Debian, Ubuntu and ArchLinux. 
> Please check that if you can.
>
> - AppImage does not like applications using OpenGL. Please check that 
> too.
>
> - The resulting AppImage files are big (at least 50 Mb) and slow to 
> start (I mean slower than it should).
>
> Otherwise, it's cool.
>
> Regards,
>

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