Zap
Looking for the older Zap v1 (Python) implementation? Head over to v1 branch.
Getting Started ✨
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 pageInstalling 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
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
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