Question: Differences between the 2 Appimages?

[est61]

Thanks for this amazing project!

Can you explain the differences between the 2 Appimages?
Also would be nice to have this in the FAQ

[srevinsaju]

Sure,
There are two appimages
guiscrcpy*.r.AppImage is the complete installation of guiscrcpy, which includes, scrcpy, adb and guiscrcpy (scrcpy is the command line tool to display images, guiscrcpy only caters to running it using the gui

guiscrcpy-min*.AppImage are a minimal installation of guiscrcpy. It DOES NOT include scrcpy and adb. You will have to manually install them.

Now, guiscrcpy-min*.AppImage will run even on very old Linux'es, i.e those released even before 2016. But the full version will only run on Linuxes released after 2018. This is indicated with the difference in the glibc version in the release assets.

To see, if your computer is compatible, run

ldd --version

This will give something like this

❯ ldd --version
ldd (GNU libc) 2.32
Copyright (C) 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Written by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.

You can see, mine is 2.32. That means, I can run both of the appimages, but consider the version is displayed 2.20. That means you cannot run the full version, because that requires at least 2.23 otherwise it will crash with a GLIBC_X_X not found error.

Let me know if you need any more clarification, I happy to explain

[crass]

I agree, this would be nice to add to the FAQ or in the release notes. I was looking for answers to the same question and just found this issue.

[askusWT]

Agree, this would be so helpful to find on the releases or by the assets!