Here's popular applications on GNU/Linux available in AppImage format in August 2018. They are LibreOffice, Krita, Kdenlive, OpenShot, Synfig Studio, Inkscape, GIMP, VLC, Emacs, and some more. I list here either they are official (built by original project) or unofficial (built by individual contributor). If you see the name probono below, he is Simon Peter, the founding father of AppImage technology. You can run these AppImages on your GNU/Linux distros (or even test them on LiveCD session). Finally, by publishing this, I hope all the original developers insterested to provide AppImage versions officially. Enjoy!
This is a list of 2D and 3D CAD, graphics, and animation editing programs for GNU/Linux in AppImage format. AppImage is portable application format that can run on any GNU/Linux distro. They are Blender, Synfig Studio, Krita, Peek, FreeCAD, LibreCAD, QCAD, and GIMP either officially or unofficially available. I wish to help you in 2D and 3D graphics with this list. I don't list here 2D graphics programs (already listed previously) like Scribus as they're clearly not for animation. Finally, I hope I can find more programs like Blender, FreeCAD, and Synfig in the future to be released officially as AppImage. Enjoy!
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Following the lists of Graphic Designing and Video Editing, here's a list of text editor and IDE for GNU/Linux in AppImage format. They are Geany, Emacs and GVim, Brackets and BlueGriffon, Qt Creator and KDevelop, and more. Most of them are unofficially built by probono (Simon Peter, the father of AppImage technology). To run any app, just mark as executable and double-click the file, very simple. Enjoy!
LibreOffice for GNU/Linux nowadays is available in 3 different universal formats, as alternative to the native format (DEB and RPM). This is an advancement that benefits us all greatly. Those 3 are AppImage, Flatpak, and Snap formats, sorted alphabetically. We, GNU/Linux users in many different distros, can obtain latest LibreOffice safely from one same source, by using one among these AFS methods. It is interesting for me to compare LibreOffice 6.2, the latest stable version now, by installation procedures, size, execution time, menubar, theme, access rights, and drag-and-drop.
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Without root, you can install Extensions easily with Inkscape AppImage on any GNU/Linux operating system. This way you don't need anymore to install Inkscape in each distro in each time you need to test some Extensions as AppImage is portable and runnable --even on LiveCD session-- across different distros i.e. Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, etc. AppImages also do not require you to install something first, so it's more efficient than Snappy or Flatpak. I hope this can help you to quickly test Inkscape Extensions as many as possible regardless you being designer or developer. This is easier than many of you ever imagined. Enjoy!
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Free/libre video editors like Kdenlive, plus tools like Natron compositor and Jubler subtitle editor are now available in AppImage format. This including OpenShot, Shotcut, VidCutter, Avidemux. You can make executable and simply
double-click to run these programs in any GNU/Linux distro. These applications in AppImage format are simple like EXE (Windows) and DMG
(macOS) to download, store, and run. Plus, AppImage format is "portable" in sense you don't need to install it. Download them below and run your favorite even in LiveCD session. Enjoy!
Good news for GNU/Linux users: now Inkscape, GIMP, Krita, Scribus, and Drawio are available in AppImage format. You can make executable and simply double-click to run these image editor programs in any GNU/Linux distro. In GNU/Linux nowadays, apps distributed in AppImage format are simple like EXE (Windows) and DMG (macOS) allowing user to instantly run one-app-one-file. Below, you can click and download them while still knowing the original download pages. Enjoy!
This tutorial for Debian 10 explains how to install LibreOffice version 6.2 with 4 alternative solutions which are DEB, AppImage, Flatpak, and Snap (or I call it simply D.A.F.S.) you may choose one. They all do not remove the already installed version. If you want 32-bit version, choose DEB instead. If you want something else, read on, perhaps you will see good things other than AppImage. I hope this helps everybody. Go ahead and get LibreOffice 6.2 on Debian!
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This tutorial will quickly help you run AppImages applications and games on Ubuntu 24.04 "Noble Numbat". This includes how to solve the issue of missing required software package that is already known. You will be able to run all your favorite AppImages since the previous versions of Ubuntu. Now let's learn to do it and happy hacking!
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Hello AppImage users! If you like AppImage so much you have many AppImage apps, and you wonder how to upgrade them, here comes AppImageUpdate for you. Running AppImage apps is easy, and updating them is easy too thanks to this program. This small program works to update AppImages you have easily just by selecting the file and go. Update process is also easy and efficient, it automates the download in diff size (also known as "delta"), not starting it from zero percent. Complete your happiness in GNU/Linux with it. This tutorial explains with pictures and an example to do it. Enjoy!
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The latest LibreOffice 6.1 has been released at 8 August 2018 with a bunch of improvements and you can install it on any GNU/Linux distro if you download the AppImage version. As you may know, application in AppImage format is "portable", you do not need to install anything in your OS except give it permission and double-click it! Here's how to download and run it regardless your GNU/Linux distro. Enjoy!
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LibreOffce version 6.2 released recently at 7 February 2019. It is the latest stable release of the best office suite software ever. It is available for GNU/Linux, Windows, and macOS. But how to run it on GNU/Linux (Ubuntu and other distros) without adding PPA and without changing the system? Easy, you can run LibreOffice in AppImage format. You download the file, you give it permission, and double-click it to run the program. It is portable, without any installation to the system, and you don't lose your previous version of LibreOffice. Finally, let's get going!
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At the short moment I wrote Snappy+Inkscape 0.92.4 yesterday, I didn't realize that actually Inkscape 1.0alpha is now available as AppImage portable executable format for all GNU/Linux distros. Regardless distro you use, simply give permission to .appimage file, and then double-click it, then the program runs. See gif animation below. This is a good news. Starting from 1.0 development, Inkscape Project cooperates with Simon Peter (probono, the father of AppImage technology) to provide AppImage officially. See their discussion here. This decision is the same as LibreOffice's and Krita's, as they provided AppImage versions since a long time ago, and this will make software testing really quicker and repeatable for everybody. It is a really good decision. Just like Richard Brown (openSUSE chairman) ever said, I also say, I love AppImage. I love Inkscape as AppImage. Please help test Inkscape AppImage on your respective distro and share it with your friends!
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LibreOffice is a really great free software project which provides its product in all formats possible, whether it is DEB or RPM, Snap, Flatpak, or even AppImage. If you don't know, AppImage is just like DMG on MacOS, it's application in single file format just click to run it. However, if you see closer, LibreOffice AppImage looks good on elementary OS 5.0. That's why it's very interesting to use on elementary OS. In this article I just want to report screenshots and my short comments about it. I hope you are interested to run LibreOffice AppImage version on elementary OS too. Enjoy!
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This tutorial will help you install Ungoogled Chromium web browser on Ubuntu 24.04 "Noble Numbat". Ungoogled Chromium is the free software version of Chrome and its developers offers better privacy by cleaning it out from integrating with Google. This continues our last month's article Librewolf - A Firefox Alternative. Happy installing!
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We're happy LibreOffice 7.0 finally released early August this year. This tutorial explains things for you wanting to get it on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa. This tutorial offers you standard ways (Deb) as well as alternative ways (AppImage, Flatpak, Snap) you may choose to install it. For merely testing purpose you must start with the AppImage one as it is safest to your system. Finally, congratulations to LibreOffice community and gratitude to all the developers! Happy writing!
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Happy news to us that GNU Image Manipulation Program now almost reaches version 3.0. This long time favorite application of us, also known as GIMP, is in rapid development stages and the Release Candidate or RC versions are already available for us to download and test (and report bug if we found any issue). As a part of the happy news, now GIMP 3.0 is officially available also as AppImage! For that reason, we can try it out as quickly as downloading and double-clicking it without removing the existing version installed. While we're all waiting for GIMP 3.0 RC to finally reach 3.0 stable, now let's start trying it out!
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