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+<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+         xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
+         xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+         xml:id="sec-pkgs-appimageTools">
+ <title>pkgs.appimageTools</title>
+
+ <para>
+   <varname>pkgs.appimageTools</varname> is a set of functions for extracting and wrapping
+   <link xlink:href="https://appimage.org/">AppImage</link> files.
+
+   They are meant to be used if traditional packaging from source is infeasible, or it would take too long.
+   To quickly run an AppImage file, <literal>pkgs.appimage-run</literal> can be used as well.
+ </para>
+
+ <warning>
+  <para>
+   The <varname>appimageTools</varname> API is unstable and may be subject to
+   backwards-incompatible changes in the future.
+  </para>
+ </warning>
+
+
+ <section xml:id="ssec-pkgs-appimageTools-formats">
+  <title>AppImage formats</title>
+
+  <para>
+   There are different formats for AppImages, see
+   <link xlink:href="https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageSpec/blob/74ad9ca2f94bf864a4a0dac1f369dd4f00bd1c28/draft.md#image-format">the specification</link> for details.
+  </para>
+
+  <itemizedlist>
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+     Type 1 images are ISO 9660 files that are also ELF executables.
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+     Type 2 images are ELF executables with an appended filesystem.
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+  </itemizedlist>
+
+  <para>
+   They can be told apart with <command>file -k</command>:
+  </para>
+
+  <screen>
+<prompt>$ </prompt>file -k type1.AppImage
+type1.AppImage: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV) ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data 'AppImage' (Lepton 3.x), scale 0-0,
+spot sensor temperature 0.000000, unit celsius, color scheme 0, calibration: offset 0.000000, slope 0.000000, dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for GNU/Linux 2.6.18, BuildID[sha1]=d629f6099d2344ad82818172add1d38c5e11bc6d, stripped\012- data
+
+<prompt>$ </prompt>file -k type2.AppImage
+type2.AppImage: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV) (Lepton 3.x), scale 232-60668, spot sensor temperature -4.187500, color scheme 15, show scale bar, calibration: offset -0.000000, slope 0.000000 (Lepton 2.x), scale 4111-45000, spot sensor temperature 412442.250000, color scheme 3, minimum point enabled, calibration: offset -75402534979642766821519867692934234112.000000, slope 5815371847733706829839455140374904832.000000, dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for GNU/Linux 2.6.18, BuildID[sha1]=79dcc4e55a61c293c5e19edbd8d65b202842579f, stripped\012- data
+  </screen>
+
+  <para>
+   Note how the type 1 AppImage is described as an <literal>ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem</literal>, and the type 2 AppImage is not.
+  </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="ssec-pkgs-appimageTools-wrapping">
+  <title>Wrapping</title>
+
+  <para>
+    Depending on the type of AppImage you're wrapping, you'll have to use
+    <varname>wrapType1</varname> or <varname>wrapType2</varname>.
+  </para>
+
+
+  <programlisting>
+appimageTools.wrapType2 { # or wrapType1
+  name = "patchwork"; <co xml:id='ex-appimageTools-wrapping-1' />
+  src = fetchurl { <co xml:id='ex-appimageTools-wrapping-2' />
+    url = https://github.com/ssbc/patchwork/releases/download/v3.11.4/Patchwork-3.11.4-linux-x86_64.AppImage;
+    sha256 =  "1blsprpkvm0ws9b96gb36f0rbf8f5jgmw4x6dsb1kswr4ysf591s";
+  };
+  extraPkgs = pkgs: with pkgs; [ ]; <co xml:id='ex-appimageTools-wrapping-3' />
+}</programlisting>
+
+
+  <calloutlist>
+   <callout arearefs='ex-appimageTools-wrapping-1'>
+    <para>
+     <varname>name</varname> specifies the name of the resulting image.
+    </para>
+   </callout>
+   <callout arearefs='ex-appimageTools-wrapping-2'>
+    <para>
+     <varname>src</varname> specifies the AppImage file to extract.
+    </para>
+   </callout>
+   <callout arearefs='ex-appimageTools-wrapping-2'>
+    <para>
+      <varname>extraPkgs</varname> allows you to pass a function to include additional packages
+      inside the FHS environment your AppImage is going to run in.
+
+      There are a few ways to learn which dependencies an application needs:
+
+      <itemizedlist>
+       <listitem>
+        <para>
+         Looking through the extracted AppImage files, reading its scripts and running <command>patchelf</command> and <command>ldd</command> on its executables.
+         This can also be done in <command>appimage-run</command>, by setting <command>APPIMAGE_DEBUG_EXEC=bash</command>.
+        </para>
+       </listitem>
+
+       <listitem>
+        <para>
+         Running <command>strace -vfefile</command> on the wrapped executable, looking for libraries that can't be found.
+        </para>
+       </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+
+    </para>
+   </callout>
+  </calloutlist>
+
+ </section>
+</section>