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PyBitmessage AppImage Build instructions

Requirements

First make sure you have dpkg and appimagetool installed. From packages/AppImage/ Dir run install.sh to install the appimagetool.

./install.sh

Build and Install

This script requires PyBitmessage .deb package. Download the latest version from https://storage.bitmessage.org/binaries/

Once you have downloaded the package and have dpkg and appimagetool installed:

You can start to build the appimage

Clone the source code

git clone git://github.com/Bitmessage/PyBitmessage.git

This will install the base app to your local flatpak user repository, it takes a while to compile because QT4 and PyQt4 have to be build, among others. But this is only required once.

Build

Run build.sh Usage: ./build.sh "path to deb package" Example ./build.sh ~/Downloads/pybitmessage_0.6.3.2-1_amd64.deb

cd PyBitmessage/packages/AppImage
./build.sh ~/Downloads/pybitmessage_0.6.3.2-1_amd64.deb 

Run

./PyBitmessage-x86_64.AppImage

Cleanup

The script performs a cleanup, deletes the intermediate AppDir & tmp files.