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Mini-tutorial: Let's package FlightGear.
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# What the fuck?
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Long story short:
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These are stand-alone executable packages.
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They have two personalities: Sometimes they think they're an ELF executable, so you can just run them and play
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these awesome games, if you have execution credentials (chmod +x [package file]). Sometimes, they think they're
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an ISO file, so you can also mount them with fuseiso, acetoneiso, or your ISO management application of choice,
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and peek what's inside.
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Inside the packages you'll find two things:
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$ pacman2appDir flightgear -subversion
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$ buildAppImage
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A minimal installation for each game, sometimes next to i.e. a minimal Wine or Perl installation
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A little script (AppRun) to glue it all together when you run the package
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How the fuck?
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Using the awesome superpowers of PortableLinuxApps.org, and some script magic.
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# Why the fuck?
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Short story long:
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Why the fuck not. I'm just a casual gamer with no space left in my laptop for games (or anything work-unrelated
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for that matter). I'm also tired of the state of release segmentation between Linux distributions, or having some
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old nightly game version I enjoyed playing every now and then stop working because the library it was linked against
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no longer exists, because my distribution decided to update it. So I discovered this AppImage thingy, and decided
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to contribute back. I like it, and I'd like to see it converted in the future of Linux package distribution.
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I fell in love with this stuff in in the very moment it occurred to me that I could package Starcraft together with
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a minimal Wine install in an AppImage, copy it to an USB drive, take it to my college's lab (se use Ubuntu on all
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labs), and have Starcraft running right when I click on it. Move the USB drive over among some friends, and you have
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an instant Starcraft party. On Linux. And with no drugs. Like, woah.
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$ pacman2appDir flightgear
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Now I can stash the games I'm not usually playing in some external hard drive, and rescue them anytime I feel like
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playing them again, knowing that every single dependency will be still in its place.
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Also games usually take less space, because I can play them without uncompressing them, and performance
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isn't affected that much, how cool is that?
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# Who the fuck?
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These packages will be included:
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flightgear
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simgear
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libxmu
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libxi
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zlib
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openscenegraph
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subversion
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libxrandr
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glu
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flightgear-data
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[sudo] password for raziel:
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Got any constructive feedback? Does any game fail to run in your machine? Write me to
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tux AT portablelinuxgames.org
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Please note that what I'm doing here is packing some games I like, and sharing them over just in case they're
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useful to someone else. I'm only sharing the games I think I'm free to distribute (I've also packaged some
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commercial games I've bought, but I'm not sharing those with you guys!). If you're the owner of any of these
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games and you don't like them being here without your explicit permission, please let me know and I'll take it
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down. I just want to share something I think it's cool, I'm not taking any profit with this, other than maybe
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Internet Karma™.
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Oops! For some reason, FlightGear depends on subversion, we don't really want
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that, so we ignore it:
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All these packages are working on my system (32bit ArchLinux on Dell XPS L502X), but I don't have the spare time
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to test every package as well as I should on different distros, so if any package fails to run on your machine,
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please send me an email with the exact error message and I'll try to fix it (when I find time). Or uncompress
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the package, fix it yourself, pack it back up and share it if you want; your AppImage, your rules.
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$ pacman2appDir flightgear -subversion
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Ignoring subversion...
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These packages will be included:
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flightgear
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simgear
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libxmu
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libxi
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zlib
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openscenegraph
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libxrandr
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glu
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flightgear-data
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[sudo] password for raziel:
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resolving dependencies...
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Targets (10): plib-1.8.5-4 flightgear-2.10.0-1 flightgear-data-2.10.0-1 glu-9.0.0-1 libxi-1.6.2-1 libxmu-1.1.1-1 libxrandr-1.4.0-1 openscenegraph-3.0.1-8
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simgear-2.10.0-1 zlib-1.2.7-1
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Total Download Size: 0.00 MiB
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Proceed with download? [Y/n]
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(10/10) checking package integrity [-------------------------------------------------------------] 100%
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Assuming main package is /var/cache/pacman/pkg/flightgear-2.10.0-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz with version 2.10.0
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Uncompressing /var/cache/pacman/pkg/flightgear-2.10.0-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz...
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Uncompressing /var/cache/pacman/pkg/simgear-2.10.0-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz...
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Uncompressing /var/cache/pacman/pkg/libxmu-1.1.1-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz...
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Uncompressing /var/cache/pacman/pkg/libxi-1.6.2-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz...
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Uncompressing /var/cache/pacman/pkg/zlib-1.2.7-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz...
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Uncompressing /var/cache/pacman/pkg/openscenegraph-3.0.1-8-i686.pkg.tar.xz...
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Uncompressing /var/cache/pacman/pkg/libxrandr-1.4.0-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz...
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Uncompressing /var/cache/pacman/pkg/glu-9.0.0-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz...
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Uncompressing /var/cache/pacman/pkg/flightgear-data-2.10.0-1-any.pkg.tar.xz...
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tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.fflags'
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tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.fflags'
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tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.fflags'
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tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.fflags'
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tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.fflags'
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tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.fflags'
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tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.fflags'
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tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.fflags'
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Found .desktop file 'FlightGear' (fgfs --fg-root)
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Using it as main program
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ls: cannot access usr/share/pixmaps/flightgear.png: No such file or directory
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ls: cannot access usr/share/pixmaps/flightgear.*: No such file or directory
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! Icon flightgear not found
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usr/share/pixmaps:
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find: `usr/share/pixmaps': No such file or directory
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Possible missing libraries: (use --auto-copy-libs to copy them into usr/lib/)
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/usr/lib/libglapi.so.0
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/usr/lib/libGL.so.1
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/usr/lib/libglut.so.3
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/usr/lib/libopenal.so.1
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/usr/lib/libpng15.so.15
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/usr/lib/libsystemd-daemon.so.0
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/usr/lib/libudev.so.1
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Deleting usr/include...
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Deleting usr/share/applications...
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Deleting usr/share/man...
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Deleting usr/share/doc...
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Deleting usr/lib/pkgconfig...
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Deleting usr/lib/libSimGearCore.a...
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Deleting usr/lib/libSimGearScene.a...
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Deleting usr/lib/libXrandr.a...
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Deleting usr/lib/libz.a...
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Deleting .PKGINFO...
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Done, now let's package it
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$ cd flightgear.AppDir
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$ buildAppImage
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Building package in ../FlightGear 2.10.0-r2.run...
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Creating /home/raziel/packaging/staging/FlightGear 2.10.0-r2.run...
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xorriso 0.4.8 : RockRidge filesystem manipulator, libburnia project.
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xorriso : UPDATE : Thank you for being patient for 1 seconds
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Drive current: -dev '/home/raziel/packaging/staging/FlightGear 2.10.0-r2.run'
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Media current: stdio file, overwriteable
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Media status : is blank
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Media summary: 0 sessions, 0 data blocks, 0 data, 1313m free
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Volume id : 'ISOIMAGE'
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xorriso : UPDATE : 13823 files added in 1 seconds
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Added to ISO image: directory '/'='/home/raziel/packaging/staging/FlightGear 2.10.0-archlinux-r1'
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xorriso : UPDATE : 1 files added in 1 seconds
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Added to ISO image: file '/.DirIcon'='/home/raziel/packaging/staging/FlightGear 2.10.0-archlinux-r1/AppRun.png'
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xorriso : UPDATE : 9 file filters processed in 2 seconds
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xorriso : UPDATE : 39 file filters processed in 3 seconds
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xorriso : UPDATE : 53 file filters processed in 4 seconds
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...
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xorriso : UPDATE : 12258 file filters processed in 236 seconds
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xorriso : UPDATE : 12261 file filters processed in 236 seconds
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xorriso : UPDATE : Writing: 2192s 0.5% fifo 0% buf 50%
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xorriso : UPDATE : Writing: 2254s 0.6% fifo 0% buf 50%
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...
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xorriso : UPDATE : Writing: 403042s 99.8% fifo 0% buf 50% 3.1xD
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ISO image produced: 403939 sectors
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Written to media : 403968 sectors at LBA 32
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Writing to '/home/raziel/packaging/staging/FlightGear 2.10.0-r2.run' completed sucessfully.
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ok
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Embedding icon into runtime...
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Embedding runtime into the header of /home/raziel/packaging/staging/FlightGear 2.10.0-r2.run...
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ok
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Making /home/raziel/packaging/staging/FlightGear 2.10.0-r2.run executable...
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ok
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Size: 789.062500 MB
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There, done!
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Btw, if you have a pure 64bit system, please note that 32bit AppImages won't work by default. Please check this
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tutorial to see how to configure a 64bit operative system to run 32bit AppImages.
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