AppImage made using sharun and its wrapper quick-sharun, which makes it easy and reliable to turn any binary into a portable package without using containers or similar tricks.

This AppImage bundles everything and it should work on any Linux distro, including old and musl-based ones.

This AppImage doesn't require FUSE to run at all, thanks to the uruntime.

This AppImage is also supplied with the seamless self-updater by default, so any updates to this application won't be missed.
Self-updater doesn't run if AppImage managers like am or soar exist, which manage AppImage integration and updates.
There is also a prompt and config for opting-out of self-updates if desired.

Filesize efficiency compared to flatpak

More at: AnyLinux-AppImages

Known quirks

• Search-provider integration works only on Gnome (same as upstream) & it depends on:
  • the desktop file being present (which AppImage managers like soar & am already take care of).
    Desktop file needs to be named org.gnome.Calculator.desktop for it to work.
    The only exception is the detection for desktop file gnome-calculator-AM.desktop in local directories, which is added as a support for am AppImage manager.
  • the XDG_DATA_DIRS variable having the XDG_DATA_HOME in path, which the AppImage will detect if not present + warn about & suggest the solution.
  • This operation won't be performed if search integration files already exist in /usr/share/ or /usr/local/share/, as it's assumed that the packager and/or system-administrator already handled that integration to the system. Modifying XDG_DATA_DIRS in that case is not needed.
  • If you use the AppImage portable folders feature, those 2 files are made in host's ${HOME}, which you can delete on app removal:
    • ${XDG_DATA_HOME}/gnome-shell/search-providers/org.gnome.Calculator-search-provider.ini
    • ${XDG_DATA_HOME}/dbus-1/services/org.gnome.Calculator.SearchProvider.service
  • When you click the search entry to copy the calculation result, it will copy it, but the notification about it won't show
• Help page only works if gnome-help or other similar .page viewer is installed on the host's system.
  Bundling the help page viewer in the AppImage would make it work everywhere, but it's both bad for the file size and security, hence why we don't do that.
  • gnome-help v49.0 doesn't work with Help section of our GTK AppImages for some reason, while older versions, like v42.3 work.