Description

GitHub Action for creating AppImage releases from .tar.gz packages. It generates AppImage file based on source .tar.gz under git tag latest.

only stable version releases
only build new release if the new version of source .tar.gz had been released

The GitHub repo needs to have app.desktop file in the root and GitHub action set. See examples at:

It can be used as GitHub action, but bash script can be used as standalone outside of GitHub.

GitHub Action Usage

See action.yml

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - name: Build
        id: build
        uses: valicm/appimage-bash@v1.1
        with:
          version_url: 'https://dl.pstmn.io/download/latest/linux64'
          version_file: 'app/resources/app/package.json'
          version_bash: 'jq -r  .version'
          version_icon: 'icon_128x128.png'

Action Inputs

version_url -> URL where the source .tar.gz can be downloaded
version_file -> path to the file which contains version string of .tar.gz package
version_icon -> name of the image file from original .tar.gz to be used as source icon
version_bash -> bash code to search for version string inside version_file
version_directory -> binary to be placed in different folder than default usr/bin
version_check -> check if the version of source .tar.gz is different from the last GH release
version_only -> executing only version check, no build performed

Standalone usage

The bash script can be used as standalone for building AppImage packages. It relies on app.desktop file having specific properties from where you can define download url, icon, etc..

app.desktop properties:

VersionUrl
VersionFile
VersionIcon
VersionBash
VersionDirectory

Specification of these properties are same as of action inputs above.

Standalone usage

Get build.sh

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/valicm/appimage-bash/main/build.sh chmod +x build.sh

Create app.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=PhpStorm
Exec=phpstorm.sh %f
Icon=Phpstorm
Comment=PhpStorm
Categories=Development;IDE;
Terminal=false
StartupNotify=true
StartupWMClass=jetbrains-phpstorm

VersionUrl=https://data.services.jetbrains.com/products/download?code=PS&platform=linux
VersionFile=product-info.json
VersionBash=jq -r  .version
VersionIcon=phpstorm.svg
VersionDirectory=opt/phpstorm

Execute

bash build.sh

License

The scripts and documentation in this project are released under the MIT License