This came up last year. Any progress so far?
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Why would you want .deb… they are a pain to install often failing to uninstall or upgrade between versions properly requiring the user to manual uninstall and install the latest version from terminal.
.Appimage is superior and requires almost no effort on part of the user, simply download the app image, delete the old one and run the new. No hassle, no mess and more importantly no messing up of installations due to weird .deb bug here.
Not to mention .Appimages run on all distro’s and are not limited to Debian based systems only, furthermore .Appimages are self-contained including their needed dependencies and do not affect shared libraries and are not affected if outdated or incompatible.
A brief summary of how .Appimage avoids damaging your system by:
- Not modifying system libraries or configurations, as it runs independently.
- Not requiring root (admin) rights, so it can’t make broad system changes that might break things.
- Supporting sandboxing, like with Firejail, for extra security by isolating the app from your system.
- Being easy to remove—just delete the file, and it’s gone, with no leftover files.
We do not need .deb files and it will certainly not benefit the community and only create more hassle for both users and Cursor.
If you you have a argument different for why we should use .deb I’d like to hear it but from my perspective I think it would be a bad decision for the community and Cursor to use .deb.
You are right, I just want a desktop icon for cursor and set the shortcut, but I don’t know where Appimage sets the icon for cursor, the shortcut
Hello , you can use gear level : Install Gear Lever on Linux | Flathub
This tool is good for manage and create shortcuts for AppImage