Looks like someone has suggested a pull request for Avogadro 1.x with AppImage support:
cryos:master ← probonopd:master
opened 10:29AM - 02 Jun 18 UTC
This PR, when merged, will compile this application on [Travis CI](https://travi… s-ci.org/) upon each `git push`, and upload an [AppImage](http://appimage.org/) to your GitHub Releases page.
Providing an [AppImage](http://appimage.org/) would have, among others, these advantages:
- Applications packaged as an AppImage can run on many distributions (including Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, CentOS, elementaryOS, Linux Mint, and others)
- One app = one file = super simple for users: just download one AppImage file, [make it executable](http://discourse.appimage.org/t/how-to-make-an-appimage-executable/80), and run
- No unpacking or installation necessary
- No root needed
- No system libraries changed
- Works out of the box, no installation of runtimes needed
- Optional desktop integration with `appimaged`
- Optional binary delta updates, e.g., for continuous builds (only download the binary diff) using AppImageUpdate
- Can optionally GPG2-sign your AppImages (inside the file)
- Works on Live ISOs
- Can use the same AppImages when dual-booting multiple distributions
- Can be listed in the [AppImageHub](https://appimage.github.io/apps) central directory of available AppImages
- Can double as a self-extracting compressed archive with the `--appimage-extract` parameter
[Here is an overview](https://appimage.github.io/apps) of projects that are already distributing upstream-provided, official AppImages.
__PLEASE NOTE:__ For this to work, you need to enable Travis CI for your repository as [described here](https://travis-ci.org/getting_started) __prior to merging this__, if you haven't already done so. Also, You need to set up `GITHUB_TOKEN` in Travis CI for this to work; please see https://github.com/probonopd/uploadtool.
If you would like to see only one entry for the Pull Request in your project's history, then please enable [this GitHub functionality](https://help.github.com/articles/configuring-commit-squashing-for-pull-requests/) on your repo. It allows you to squash (combine) the commits when merging.
If you have questions, AppImage developers are on #AppImage on irc.freenode.net.
__Test builds of the Avogadro AppImage are available for download at https://github.com/probonopd/avogadro/releases__. Let me know if there are any remaining issues.
Since it relies on Travis builds, I’ll see if we can get this ported to avogadrolibs as well.
If there’s anything I can do to aid in this, please do ask. For example, I’ll be happy to try out the AppImages you build in my various virtual machines and Linux installs (I have ~10 distros installed to my hard disk, and an additional 20 installed in virtual machines).