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+version=$(curl --silent "https://api.github.com/repos/laurent22/joplin/releases/latest" | grep -Po '"tag_name": "v\K.*?(?=")')
+rm -r ~/.joplin/ ~/.local/share/applications/joplin.desktop
+mkdir -p ~/.joplin/
+wget -O ~/.joplin/Joplin-$version-x86_64.AppImage https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/releases/download/v$version/Joplin-$version-x86_64.AppImage 
+chmod +x ~/.joplin/Joplin-$version-x86_64.AppImage
+wget -O ~/.joplin/Icon512.png https://joplin.cozic.net/images/Icon512.png
+echo -e "[Desktop Entry]\nEncoding=UTF-8\nName=Joplin\nExec=/home/$USER/.joplin/Joplin-$version-x86_64.AppImage\nIcon=/home/$USER/.joplin/Icon512.png\nType=Application\nCategories=Application;" >> ~/.local/share/applications/joplin.desktop