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Flutter Distributor

AppImage

Requirements

  • locate

    On Ubuntu/Debian based linux, run:

    Terminal window
    $ sudo apt install locate

  • AppImageTool

To install Appimage Builder, run:

Terminal window
wget -O appimagetool "https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/releases/download/continuous/appimagetool-x86_64.AppImage"
chmod +x appimagetool
mv appimagetool /usr/local/bin/

Last command may require sudo privileges

Usage

Add make_config.yaml to your project linux/packaging/appimage directory.

display_name: Hello World


icon: assets/logo.png


keywords:
  - Hello
  - World
  - Test
  - Application


generic_name: Cool Application


actions:
  - name: Say Hi
    label: say-hi
    arguments:
      - --say
      - hi
  - name: Say Bye
    label: say-bye
    arguments:
      - --say
      - bye


categories:
  - Music


startup_notify: true


# You can specify the shared libraries that you want to bundle with your app
#
# flutter_distributor automatically detects the shared libraries that your app
# depends on, but you can also specify them manually here.
#
# The following example shows how to bundle the libcurl library with your app.
#
# include:
#   - libcurl.so.4
include: []

Run:

Terminal window
flutter_distributor package --platform linux --targets appimage