A new update for the "AM" Application Manager, a database and solution for all AppImages and portable apps for GNU/Linux, has been released. The change log includes a new option to create portable "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME" directories for AppImages, a frontend of the inbuilt option --appimage-portable-config, and a check for the existence of the portable config or home directory.

"AM" 7.3

New option to create portable "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME" directories for AppImages

The new option -C (uppercased) or --config is a frontend of the inbuilt option --appimage-portable-config that aready exists in all AppImages, as -H (uppercased) or --home is for the other inbuilt option --appimage-portable-home.

SYNTAX

am -C {PROGRAM}

or

appman -C {PROGRAM}

These changes are all made by  @Samueru-sama :

• Add option -C or --config to create a .config directory for AppImages like it is already done for .home.

• Add check for when the portable config or home directory already exists

tests:

In the test, kek simulates a non-installed package and bemoji a non-appimage package, to test that those checks for those cases are working.

Each run of --home or --config is repeated to also test when the directory already exists.

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Among other changes:

• improved option -e or extra from release  7.2

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Among apps changes:

• new AppImages for bottles, gnome-boxes, steam and virtualbox, all based on the excellent "conty"
• kdeutils apps are now 27 into one appimage
• appimages for chromium, chromium-rc, chromium-beta and chromium-edge

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Statistics on apps available in the database:

• Installation scripts for x86_64: 2150
• Metascripts for x86_64: 4 (kdegames 40 apps, kdeutils 27, platform-tools 3, node 2)
• Unique AppImages (non-metascripts): 1866

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Full Changelog:  7.2.1...7.3

Release "AM" 7.3 · ivan-hc/AM