"AM" 6.13

Major improvements aimed at speeding up the addition of new apps

At this moment the database contains 2059 installation scripts for the x86_64 architecture, which is equivalent to approximately 2050 programs, of which at least 1900 are AppImage packages!

And with this release, the number is destined to increase more and more, guaranteeing our users the transparency and availability of sources, through the options -a (get information about the apps), -d (download the installation script) and out site portable-linux-apps.github.io.

This release will make it much easier for us all to upload installation scripts for archived programs and standalone binaries (option "-t" or "template", select "2").

Option "-t", template for the selection 2 (archives, scripts and various programs)

The new script already incorporates support for 7z, tar and zip archives, and can also be used to install AppImage packages that do not require launchers. In fact, adding a launcher for this template is optional. The icon must be downloaded via a URL, which if not available, will be replaced by the icons available on portable-linux-apps.github.io.

In the example, we create a script for OBS Studio AppImage, complete with a custom launcher, and without an icon:

simplescreenrecorder-2024-06-21_06.19.31.mkv.mp4

Thanks to @Samueru-sama for all the help!

Option "-t", templates for the selection 1 (build Appimages on-the-fly)

Also fixed issues in the two templates available for the selection 1, those needed to build AppImages on-the-fy!

In this example, we build Abiword AppImage from Debian:

simplescreenrecorder-2024-06-20_17.16.53_edit.mkv.mp4

NOTE, to work with pkg2appimage and appimagetool is needed Imagemagick installed on your system. These two are Type3 AppImages, so you don't need "libfuse2" to use them.

Code refactoring

Additionally, the "template.am" module, the templates in use and 60+ new installation scripts have been refactored.

Full Changelog: 6.12.1...6.13