How to include libappindicator1 in AppImage?

[morloy]

• Version: 10.7.1

• Target: Linux/AppImage

I'm trying to build a Linux package in the AppImage format on macOS. Unfortunately, the tray icon doesn't show up since libappindicator1 is missing. Installing it using apt-get solves the problem, but isn't a very good solution.

Is there any way to include it in the AppImage? There's libnode and libffmpeg in the linux-unpacked folder, so I assume libappindicator1 should go there as well, but I don't know how to do it.

[develar]

Planned to implement, priority will be increased. I hope fix will be in 2 days.

[morloy]

Any updates on this?

[develar]

#1089 had a higher priority. Started to work on this :)

[develar]

@morloy Is it possible to provide a link to your project to test libappindicator1 support?

[develar]

fixed in 11.4.1: set appImage.includeRequiredLib to true. Only x64 arch for now. Not by default because it is breaking change. Feedback wanted.

Now you can run AppImage produced by electron-builder on Elementary OS also.

[morloy]

Thanks a lot! Will try to test and give feedback soon.

[morloy]

Just tested and it works.

It's a bit weird now, since all the dependencies are included, which bloats the AppImage by more than 50 MiB. However, I manually removed all libraries in AppImage-packages/16.01.17/ expect libappindicator and libindicator. Now everything works fine and additional file size is negligible.

[develar]

@morloy It is a price. If you want to allow user to run AppImage everywhere, you need to it. For example, on Elementary OS. If you are disagree — well, more granulated config maybe introduced.

[probonopd]

@develar are you really bundling all libs in that case? That may be overkill. Possibly it would be more sensible to just bundle the ones that are known to be absent from the default installation of well-known distros but needed for Electron.

[morloy]

I support @probonopd and would recommend to bundle libappindicator by default (~ 124KiB) and all the others only when includeRequiredLib is set to true.