1. Juan Pablo Caram Avatar Juan Pablo Caram
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Provide Appimage

Issue #515 new
Samuel created an issue

Hey there,

would it be possible to provide an Appimage of FlatCAM? This would be really awesome and more people could use it out of the box.

I would like to use it with my students at a school, but it is difficult to get software on the school computers, when we have to install libraries at first.

Best regards
Samuel

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  5. Samuel reporter

    I created recipes for Appimages of FlatCAM. I think they are far from being optimal, as they are my first recipes, but maybe they can be a starting point.

  6. Marius Stanciu

    Hi,
    I’m taking care of the Beta branch. Because I use FlatCAM in Windows (where I do all the programming too) I do not have much knowledge (nor do I have the time to learn more than I know) on Linux so it’s up to you (and others that are interested) to contribute and create all there is needed to provide such packaging.
    Best regards,
    Marius

  10. Samuel reporter

    Hi Marius,

    thanks for your response.

    I modified the appimage-builder scripts, so they can run within Bitbucket pipelines.

    If the bitbucket-pipelines.yml file is in the root of the branches 8p5 and beta, the appimage-builder command is executed everytime something in the code of those branches changes.

    To succeed the appimage-builder command needs the AppImageBuilder.yml file in the same directory. I created one for the old stable branch (8p5) and one for the beta branch.

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    The pipelines create an artifact, which is an linux executable .AppImage in a tar archive. Those files could go to downloads to provide linux binaries.

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    There is still one thing remaining: the version is specified in the AppImageBuilder.yml (currently 8.994). But everytime the version changes one should also change the specified version in the AppImageBuilder.yml. I haven’t found a way to automate that so far.

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    Marius, let me know what you think!

    Best regards
    Samuel

  11. Marius Stanciu

    Hello Samuel,

    If this works then at the moment of the next version (8.995) release I will test it and see how this works and what is the result.
    We may need also a very short set of instructions on how to use this image so I can include them in the Readme file.
    Do you have any idea how big such an image will be?

    Best regards,
    Marius

  12. Samuel reporter

    Hey Marius,

    glad to hear that!

    The size of the file should be around 236 MB.

    Regarding the reamde we could reorganize the linux section

    2. Linux

    2.1 Appimage:

    FlatCAM is provided as an Appimage. Downloadable from the Download folder. The Appimage should be marked as executable and can then be started right away:

    chmod +x FlatCAM-xxx.AppImage
./FlatCAM-xxx.AppImage

    2.2 As python app:

    ... existing text

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    I am eager if the automated build process will work wirh 8.995

    Best regards
    Samuel

  13. Marius Stanciu

    Right now I still have some issues in 8.995 that needs to be fixed, nothing really big but I am travelling abroad with work and a short vacation will follow. I do hope that I will release the next version soon but then again, I keep saying that for almost half and year… 🙂

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