{"id":37562,"date":"2022-02-22T17:24:14","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T17:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=37562"},"modified":"2022-02-24T16:17:32","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T16:17:32","slug":"search-download-linux-apps-appimage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2022\/02\/search-download-linux-apps-appimage\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;AppImage Pool&#8217; &#8211; Software Center for Linux Apps as AppImage Packages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/appimagepool.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/appimagepool-250x250.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-37563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/appimagepool-250x250.webp 250w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/appimagepool-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/appimagepool-600x600.webp 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/appimagepool-768x768.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/appimagepool.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Prefer running Linux apps via AppImage package format? &#8216;AppImage Pool&#8217; is an app center for searching and downloading your favorite apps as AppImage.<\/p>\n<p>More and more apps today publish Linux packages via universal <i>Flatpak<\/i>, <i>Snap<\/i> and <i>AppImage<\/i>. The former two are easy to install since they are well integrated in Ubuntu or other Linux. But, <b>AppImage<\/b> is a non-install portable package. It uses one file per application. Just run the file will launch the app.<\/p>\n<p><b>To make it easy to find out and download an app as AppImage, the free libre and open-source software &#8216;AppImage Pool&#8217; is created as a simple, modern AppImageHub client.<\/b><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_37564\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/appimage-pool.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37564\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/appimage-pool-600x337.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" class=\"size-large wp-image-37564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/appimage-pool-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/appimage-pool-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/appimage-pool-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/appimage-pool.jpg 1221w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-37564\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">AppImage Pool<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The tool uses Google&#8217;s flutter to provide a Gnome Software and Ubuntu Software look like user interface, allows user to browser, search for, and download AppImage packages. Though, it so far has sharp window borders that looks not native in GNOME.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of using &#8216;<i>Install<\/i>&#8216; option, each app has a blue &#8216;<b>Download<\/b>&#8216; button. By clicking on it will pop up the dialog to choose package to download. <b>Not only the latest, history packages are also available. And, it downloads from github directly, no extra-server involved<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/select-download-pool.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/select-download-pool-600x340.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"340\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-37566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/select-download-pool-600x340.webp 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/select-download-pool-300x170.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/select-download-pool-768x435.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/select-download-pool.webp 1235w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Downloaded packages are listed under &#8216;<b>Installed<\/b>&#8216; tab, with ability to click to launch app as well as delete buttons. <\/p>\n<p>Other features include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Dark \/ Light<\/b> mode.<\/li>\n<li>Store files by default in &#8216;<b>Applications<\/b>&#8216; folder in user home. <\/li>\n<li>Multi download support.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>How to Install AppImage Pool:<\/h3>\n<p><b>The app itself is available as AppImage package<\/b>, which can be downloaded from the GitHub releases page (via Assets section):<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-cyan-blue-to-vivid-purple-gradient-background has-text-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/prateekmedia\/appimagepool\/releases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download AppImage Pool<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s also available as universal Flatpak package. Ubuntu user may firstly press <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> to open terminal and run command to install Flatpak daemon:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt install flatpak<\/pre>\n<p>Then install the tool via command:<\/p>\n<pre>flatpak install https:\/\/dl.flathub.org\/repo\/appstream\/io.github.prateekmedia.appimagepool.flatpakref<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/flatpak-appimagepool.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/flatpak-appimagepool-600x410.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"410\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-37567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/flatpak-appimagepool-600x410.webp 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/flatpak-appimagepool-300x205.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/flatpak-appimagepool-768x525.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/flatpak-appimagepool.webp 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Uninstall AppImage Pool:<\/h3>\n<p>For the Flatpak package, run the command below in terminal to remove it:<\/p>\n<pre>flatpak uninstall --delete-data io.github.prateekmedia.appimagepool<\/pre>\n<p>And clear useless library via <code>flatpak uninstall --unused<\/code>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prefer running Linux apps via AppImage package format? &#8216;AppImage Pool&#8217; is an app center for searching and downloading your favorite apps as AppImage. More and more apps today publish Linux packages via universal Flatpak, Snap and AppImage. The former two are easy to install since they are well integrated in Ubuntu or other Linux. 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