⚡ Zap

The delightful package manager for AppImages 📦

The status of development is still in Beta. Please help me find bugs by opening an issue.

Looking for a stabler, Zap v1 (Python)? Head over to master branch

Getting Started ✨

For system-wide installation (needs sudo)

$ sudo wget https://github.com/srevinsaju/zap/releases/download/v2-continuous/zap-amd64 -O /usr/local/bin/zap
$ sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/zap
$ zap --help

For local installtion, (requires ~/.local/bin to be on $PATH)

$ wget https://github.com/srevinsaju/zap/releases/download/v2-continuous/zap-amd64 -O ~/.local/bin/zap
$ chmod +x ~/.local/bin/zap
$ zap --help

NOTE: Replace amd64 with your machine architecture. Supported architectures are listed in the release page

Installing AppImages

All AppImages from the AppImage Catalog and AppImage catalog v2 can be installed using zap with their registered name.

zap install element

will ask you the version of element you would like to install + download them and do all the hard work of integrating into your system, i.e creating desktop files, etc.

You can also install appimages from GitHub releases

zap install --github --from vscodium/vscodium

will put some options which will let you choose the best version for your system.

It is also possible to install AppImage from URLs

zap install --from https://f.sed.lol/wow.AppImage

To integrate a pre-downloaded AppImage using zap, you will have to use the file:// protocol

zap install --from file:///home/username/Downloads/My_Super_Cool-x86_64.AppImage name_of_the_app_here

here, name_of_the_app_here specifies the name of the application. This name will be used as a unique identification of the AppImage, by zap, in its internal database.

Updating AppImages 🔄

AppImages can be optionally, automatically updated using the zapd, but to achieve this manually, you need to

zap update firefox

This will make use of the update information embedded within the appimage, which if exists, will be used to 'delta-update' the latest version, by downloading "only" the parts which have changed.

For those AppImages not supporting delta updates, you can still do

zap install zoom

to install the latest version of Zoom.

Upgrade 🚀

zap also supports updating all the apps together using appimage-update.

zap upgrade

Configuration ⚙️

It is possible to interactively configure zap. All you need to do is

zap init

And answer all the questions that would follow.

Daemon 🏃

zapd is a Zap AppImage daemon which periodically checks for updates.

zap daemon --install

This will install a systemd service in the local (user) level, which will spawn zap daemon which auto-updates the AppImages.

To run the daemon (sync), do

zap daemon

Support 💸

All Pull Requests are welcome.

If you are a non-coder or was inspired by this small project, I would be glad if you would 🌟 this repository, and spread the word with your friends and foes 😄

Credits 🙏

This project has been possible with the help and support provided by the AppImage community. Thanks to the detailed responses I received from mentors at AppImage's freenode channel.

License ⚖️

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2020 Srevin Saju

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
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THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
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OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.

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