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    It is absurd that an AppImage requires flatpak to install it.

    https://appimage.github.io/Bottles/
    which leads to
    https://github.com/bottlesdevs/Bottles/releases
    which requires one to use Flatpak to download the AppImage of Bottles, or be forced to use the source code and compile the app.
    Their claim:
    AppImage is broken, we are investigating, please use Flatpak in the meantime.
    "A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
    – John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.

    #2
    Don't get yer undies twisted

    It is simple. Nowhere on the Bottles website are appimages even mentioned The appimageHub page is not necessarily created by the bottles team. There hasn't been an appimage release afaik since December, actually early January.
    The bot that scraped the bottles github page for AppimageHub last ran in June.

    Currently there is no appimage for the project, but it seems to be being worked on
    https://github.com/bottlesdevs/Bottles/issues/1272

    https://github.com/bottlesdevs/Bottl...Aopen+appimage

    Specifically:
    :Caffe (the default runner in Bottles) requires glibc 2.32 or higher
    if you are on Neon (aka Ubuntu 20.04), you ain't got that version.

    And technically, from Appimage's own guidelines, this too-high a glibc (I think) requirement precludes Bottles from even being listed on appimagehub anyway.
    Last edited by claydoh; Apr 18, 2022, 03:16 PM.

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      #3
      Ya, I read all of that, and I read the thread where the guy supposedly developing the AppImage for Bottles complains about his problems.
      When he finished this is what he had done. Pitiful.

      The WHOLE purpose of AppImage is that the application lives inside the image and doesn't touch user space or files, which would make the glibc requirement moot. Keeping references inside his image is something he couldn't accomplish hence Flatpak. So sad, too bad.
      "A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
      – John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.

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        #4
        ??
        When he finished this is what he had done. Pitiful.
        THAT is the build instruction for the appimage, or rather the work-in-progress for it.


        I think we are reading two different things here.

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          #5
          I know. He said he couldn't reliably build the AppImage. That's probably why.
          "A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
          – John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.

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