2019-08-02, 06:52
Quote:AppImage provides a way for upstream developers to provide “native” binaries for Linux users just the same way they could do for other operating systems. It allow packaging applications for any common Linux based operating system, e.g., Ubuntu, Debian, openSUSE, RHEL, CentOS, Fedora etc. AppImages come with all dependencies that cannot be assumed to be part of each target system in a recent enough version and will run on most Linux distributions without further modifications.Suggest the Kodi team to distribute Kodi media center in Appimage format.
I created example of a Kodi Appimage
This sequence of commands will download the necessary files and execute them to generate the appimage. ( in Ubuntu ) then you can go to the kodi-Nightly/out folder and click on the generated appimage
Code:
mkdir kodi-Nightly;cd kodi-Nightly;wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AppImage/AppImages/master/pkg2appimage; mv pkg2appimage pkg2appimage.sh;chmod +x pkg2appimage.sh;wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cmatomic/RecipesAppimage/master/kodi-Nightly-xenial.yml ; ARCH=x86_64 ./pkg2appimage.sh kodi-Nightly-xenial.yml
i'm using xenial ubuntu, i generated some appimages using ppa team-xbmc / xbmc-nightly i tested on PureOS and openSUSE-Leap-15.1-GNOME-Live.
But i have had some issues with this appimage, I already reported on the Git Kodi repository.
https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/issues/16430