appimagecrafters/appimage-builder-python-example

appimage-builder example python

Python AppImage packaging example

This project contains an appimage-builder recipe for a Python3 application. To recreate the package use a modern Debian/Ubuntu system and appimage-builder.

Instructions

Packaging a Python3 application into an AppImage is quite similar to packaging a regular compiled application. Just a few adjustments are required:

1. Use the Python main binary as entry point: exec: usr/bin/python3

2. Install the pip requirements using the AppDir as root: python3 -m pip install --root=AppDir -r ./requirements.txt

3. Set the PYTHONHOME environment variable in the AppImage runtime: PYTHONHOME: '${APPDIR}/usr'

4. Copy your app source code into the AppDir: cp ./src AppDir/usr -r

That's all!

Check the appimage-builder.yml file for the complete recipe.

appimage-builder-python-example's Issues

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pyfiglet'

I clone your repo and run

appimage-builder --recipe appimage-builder.yml

I get the error: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pyfiglet'.

But the requirements.txt contains pyfiglet and the logs are

Requirement already satisfied: pyfiglet in /home/ikreb/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from -r ./requirements.txt (line 1)) (0.8.post1)

Then I uninstalled the module pyfiglet and got this log message:

 Installing collected packages: pyfiglet
 WARNING: The script pyfiglet is installed in 'AppDir/home/ikreb/.local/bin' which is not on PATH.
 Consider adding this directory to PATH or, if you prefer to suppress this warning, use --no-warn-script-location.
 Successfully installed pyfiglet-0.8.post1

But also if I add ${APPDIR}/home/ikreb/.local/bin to the PATH variable, it doesn't help.