This article is a manual to build AppImageKit from source
Install dependencies
apt install zsync libglib2.0-dev desktop-file-utils libtool automake cmake patchelf qtcreator libfuse-dev libcairo2-dev
Pull the source code
git clone --recursive https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit
git clone --recursive https://github.com/probonopd/linuxdeployqt.git
Build AppImageKit
bash -ex build.sh
cd build
sudo make install
Issues on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial
The latest cmake is 3.5 but AppImageKit requires 3.6. To build cmake, you need to install the package below:
apt install libssl-dev