# AppImage packaging tutorial?

**URL:** <https://discourse.appimage.org/t/appimage-packaging-tutorial/1725>\
**Category:** Creating AppImages\
**Created:** [June 9, 2020, 10:36pm UTC](https://discourse.appimage.org/t/appimage-packaging-tutorial/1725 "2020-06-09T22:36:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![pgoetz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc8723/32.png) [@pgoetz](https://discourse.appimage.org/u/pgoetz)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2020, 10:36pm UTC](https://discourse.appimage.org/t/appimage-packaging-tutorial/1725/1 "2020-06-09T22:36:29Z")

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I’m just getting started trying to use AppImage (but nevertheless under pressure to get one built in a situation where I don’t think there is any other workable solution).

I watched a video showing the use of something called **AppImageAssistant** , but now as I read through the packaging documentation it appears there’s a new helper app one is expected to use called **linuxdeploy-x86\_64.AppImage**? Since no mention of AppImageAssistant so far in the packaging documentation, is this a deprecated or obsoleted tool? Is there a tutorial available for current best practices in building AppImages?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![pgoetz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc8723/32.png) [@pgoetz](https://discourse.appimage.org/u/pgoetz)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 5:20pm UTC](https://discourse.appimage.org/t/appimage-packaging-tutorial/1725/2 "2020-06-11T17:20:09Z")

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Starting to look like I’m not going to get a response to this, so will continue to read through the documentation. As an aside, as I read through the Spinx-based documentation I’m finding lots of typos. Is there any way to contribute to getting these fixed?

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**Author:** ![probono](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/discourse.appimage.org/probono/32/81_2.png) [@probono](https://discourse.appimage.org/u/probono)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2020, 12:46pm UTC](https://discourse.appimage.org/t/appimage-packaging-tutorial/1725/3 "2020-06-14T12:46:04Z")

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Hello @pgoetz welcome to AppImage.

**AppImageAssistant** has been deprecated a long time ago.

Depending on how your application is made, there are much more specialized tools available today.  
Please see [https://docs.appimage.org/](https://docs.appimage.org/) for documentation on how to generate AppImages.

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**Author:** ![pgoetz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc8723/32.png) [@pgoetz](https://discourse.appimage.org/u/pgoetz)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2020, 3:24pm UTC](https://discourse.appimage.org/t/appimage-packaging-tutorial/1725/4 "2020-06-17T15:24:22Z")

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Thanks, probono! I’ve already been reading through this documentation, hence my confusion. In reading through the documentation I’m finding quite a number of typos. Should I just post an errata list to the forum?

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**Author:** ![probono](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/discourse.appimage.org/probono/32/81_2.png) [@probono](https://discourse.appimage.org/u/probono)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2020, 9:17am UTC](https://discourse.appimage.org/t/appimage-packaging-tutorial/1725/5 "2020-06-27T09:17:55Z")

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Hi @pgoetz it would be awesome if you could send pull requests for fixing the typos on [https://github.com/AppImage/docs.appimage.org](https://github.com/AppImage/docs.appimage.org). If you do not know how to do this, then please open an issue at [https://github.com/AppImage/docs.appimage.org/issues](https://github.com/AppImage/docs.appimage.org/issues) to list the typos.

Thank you very much, contributions like this are highly appreciated. 👍