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AIPM - A Package Manager for AppImages

Scrapes appimage.github.io/apps, and creates a small download manager for these

Usage

aipm install appimage

  • install a package

aipm uninstall appimage

  • uninstalls all versions of package

aipm clean [appimage|all]

  • remove older versions of AppImages

aipm search search_term

  • search for a package

aipm import -f library.json

  • import a JSON in library format

aipm export

  • export to library.json in the current working dir

aipm update

  • Pulls the library from JSON feed
  • requires gh_login and gh_token to be set in configuration

aipm scrape[Deprecated]

  • generate the library manually

  • requires gh_login and gh_token to be set in configuration

aipm -h

  • shows you the same thing as above

Installation

- clone repo
  
- install python dependencies
  pip install -r requirements.txt
  
- symlink aipm
  ln -s /path/to/repo/aipm.py /home/USER/bin/aipm
  
- configure application (edit aipm-sample.yaml, and move it to /home/USER/.config/aipm.yaml)
  
- import library
  aipm import -f /path/to/repo/library.json
  OR
  aipm update

Notes

  • Created when I started using Fedora Silverblue

    • Immutable OS, favors applications that are installed via AppImage or Flatpak

    • It's super cool and suprisingly usable, I'd recommend looking into it.

  • I found shortcomings with a similar project, spm

    • funnily enough, you can actually download spm (as an AppImage) with this tool.

  • I just wanted a simple tool to install AppImages as needed

    • I also wanted to write it

  • I thought it would be cool to pull a list of AppImages from an "official" resource

  • Before this project, I had no clue how webscraping worked. Turns out it's really easy :E

  • I chose shelve as a db because it's lightweight, and has a great context manager

    • I don't feel that a full sqlite3 db is necessary for a database so small/simple

Shortcomings

  • There is no rollback (though older versions aren't deleted when new ones are installed)

  • If installation through aipm isn't working, it's always worth a google search for the project instead

  • AppImages and Flatpaks are better and worse than eachother in their own ways.

Known Bugs/ToDo

  • There is sometimes an issue with KeyErrors on the shelve db, due to the way a json can be imported (i think?)

    • This would potentially be solved by switching to sqlite3

    • Workaround for this is to run an update command

  • Implement "upgrade" command

    • It should only install a package if there's a newer version

    • ideally, if the release cycle is "continuous", it should always download the new version