⚡️ Zap

The delightful package manager for AppImages
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Looking for the older Zap v1 (Python) implementation? Head over to v1 branch.

Getting Started ✨

Automated Installation

For installing zap you can use our little bash script.

The installer requires curl, grep jq and wget (optional). Please make sure you have it installed.

For system-wide installation (needs sudo)

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/srevinsaju/zap/main/install.sh | sudo bash -s

Note: Always Check bash scripts before running as sudo. You can feel free to check out install.sh, it's safe.

For local installation run

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/srevinsaju/zap/main/install.sh | bash -s

Manual Installation

For system-wide installation (needs sudo)

sudo wget https://github.com/srevinsaju/zap/releases/download/continuous/zap-amd64 -O /usr/local/bin/zap
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/zap
zap --help

For local installation, (requires ~/.local/bin to be on $PATH)

mkdir -p ~/.local/bin
wget https://github.com/srevinsaju/zap/releases/download/continuous/zap-amd64 -O ~/.local/bin/zap
chmod +x ~/.local/bin/zap
zap --help

NOTE: Replace amd64 with your machine architecture. Supported architectures are listed in the release page

Installing AppImages

All AppImages from the AppImage Catalog and AppImage catalog v2 can be installed using zap with their registered name.

zap install element

will ask you the version of element you would like to install + download them and do all the hard work of integrating into your system, i.e creating desktop files, etc.

You can also install appimages from GitHub releases

zap install --github --from vscodium/vscodium

will put some options which will let you choose the best version for your system.

It is also possible to install AppImage from URLs

zap install --from https://f.sed.lol/wow.AppImage wow

To integrate a locally downloaded AppImage,

zap install libresprite ~/Downloads/Libresprite-x86_64.AppImage

... or using the file:// protocol

zap install --from file:///home/username/Downloads/My_Super_Cool-x86_64.AppImage name_of_the_app_here

here, name_of_the_app_here specifies the name of the application. This name will be used as a unique identification of the AppImage, by zap, in its internal database.

Updating AppImages 🔄

AppImages can be optionally, automatically updated using the zapd, but to achieve this manually, you need to

zap update firefox

This will make use of the update information embedded within the appimage, which if exists, will be used to 'delta-update' the latest version, by downloading "only" the parts which have changed.

For those AppImages not supporting delta updates, you can still do

zap install zoom

to install the latest version of Zoom.

Upgrade 🚀

zap also supports updating all the apps together using appimage-update.

zap upgrade

Configuration ⚙️

It is possible to interactively configure zap. All you need to do is

zap init

And answer all the questions that would follow.

Daemon 🏃

zapd is a Zap AppImage daemon which periodically checks for updates.

zap daemon --install

This will install a systemd service in the local (user) level, which will spawn zap daemon which auto-updates the AppImages.

To run the daemon (sync), do

zap daemon

Support 💸

All Pull Requests are welcome.

If you are a non-coder or was inspired by this small project, I would be glad if you would 🌟 this repository, and spread the word with your friends and foes 😄

Credits 🙏

This project has been possible with the help and support provided by the AppImage community. Thanks to the detailed responses I received from mentors at AppImage's freenode channel.

License ⚖️

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2020-23 Srevin Saju, and other zap contributors

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
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THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
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SOFTWARE.