[scribus-dev] Scribus 1.5.1svn AppImage

probono probono at puredarwin.org
Sat Dec 19 15:14:57 UTC 2015


Working on delta updates for AppImages which means that updating the
Scribus AppImage, e.g., from 1.5.1.svn.20624 to 1.5.1.svn.206245, requires
downloading just 1.4% of the AppImage, as the other 98.6% have not
changed and can be reused.

Tests and feedback welcome.

# Make sure curl is installed on your local machine
# (this dependency will go away)
which curl

# Get Scribus 20624 AppImage
curl -L -O https://bintray.com/artifact/download/probono/AppImages/Scribus-1.5.1.svn.20624-x86_64.AppImage
chmod a+x Scribus-1.5.1.svn.20624-x86_64.AppImage

# Run it
./Scribus-1.5.1.svn.20624-x86_64.AppImage

# Get the updater
curl -L -O https://bintray.com/artifact/download/probono/AppImages/AppImageUpdate-20151218-x86_64.AppImage
chmod a+x AppImageUpdate-20151218-x86_64.AppImage

# Update Scribus AppImage to the latest version
./AppImageUpdate-20151218-x86_64.AppImage
./Scribus-1.5.1.svn.20624-x86_64.AppImage

# Look there is a newer version! Run it
NEW=$(ls Scribus-*.AppImage | sort -V | tail -n 1)
./$NEW

More information and bugtracker here:
https://github.com/probonopd/AppImageKit/tree/master/AppImageUpdate.AppDir



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