Appimage build for Maxima

What is it?

An AppImage is a a-complete-app-in-one-executable-file build of an application.

How to download and use it

• Download the appImage from https://github.com/wxMaxima-developers/docker-maxima/releases
• Tell your operating system that this file is executable (using chmod +x filename or similar)
• Start the file.

Building the Appimage yourself

To build the Appimage, run the following command:

$ docker build -t maxima .

This will build all dependenecies and the Maxima application itself. After the build has completed, run the following command to copy the Appimage from the container:

$ docker run maxima cat maxima-x86_64.AppImage > maxima-x86_64.AppImage

Finally, set the executable flag so that the executable can be run:

$ chmod +x maxima-x86_64.AppImage

All of these commands have been combined to a shell script,

$ build.sh

Making an official release of the Appimage

In theory all that has to be made in order to generate an official release including a binary file is just creating a tag in this git repo. The rest is done by travis-ci.