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Some AppImages are packaged under .zip as noted in this pkg-list PR.

To avoid hosting custom AppImages or some other weird solution, it's best to add compression to AppImage.

There are two routes:

• Look at the file extension in the URL and decompressing if it's .zip/.tar.gz/etc
• Add an (optional) flag to the pkg-list: "compressed": true

Both of these should be pretty straight forward.

On some architectures, base libraries like glibc won't work the same as on x86_64, so there can be multiple releases of AppImages as noted in this pkg-list PR.

Most AppImages are either any architecture or x86_64, so we just need a way to mark architectures that are different.

I propose an (optional) list of alternative links to use when specified and on a target architecture. Example:

{
    "name": "Cura",
    "description": "...",
    "url": "<x86_64/any url>",
    "alt-arch-urls": [
        "aarch64": "<ARM64-specific url>"
    ]
}

• Info when stuff fails
  • How to fix manifest if needed
• Info on replacing Applications with custom versions
• Any other relevant info for getting it back to a working state if something goes wrong

Ironic that an AppImage package manager isn't available and upgradable via itself lol

I think a great idea would be to make a gui and integrate appstream-rs so that when you click on a link like appstream:// it opens the GUI for aipman and you can install it immediately. This way aipman would combine both appimage and appcenter functionality and potentially eliminate the traditional .deb or .rpm packages

I think I found something similar but for flatpak https://github.com/ItsJamie9494/catalogue

So users can search via grep or something.

We have list, but it's only local, not all available