AppImage – One app framework to distro them all

Have you ever dreamed of the day when running Linux applications on any which distro would be a trivial task? So have I. Now, maybe, there's a solution to our cross-distro plea. It's called AppImage, and it's supposed to be the one ring to find them all and in the nerdness bind them. Or as the Highlander tagline says, there can only be one. Or something. My latest OCS-Mag article, enjoyski.

http://www.ocsmag.com/2016/08/22/appimage/


Cheers,
Mrk

 

You can convert packages built for one packaging kit to another but its messy and most people don't bother.

Linux's anarchy in part is due to the fact you have Debian and Red Hat and the twain will never meet.

AppImage has a long way to go before its usable by average folks who are not programmers like Mrk.

All they care about is installing their favorite program and running it. Just like they do in Windows.

 

Correct me if I'm wrong but what seems difficult is building AppImages, not using them, no?

 

Yup. Mrk is a programmer and building AppImage from scratch was laborious.

What he said in his review is most folks simply want to install and run their programs.

Its easy to do in Windows but Linux still has nothing comparable.

 

I should change that old sig
I'm more of an artist now. A Linux artist.
Mrk

 

There are plenty of prebuilt appimages as I noted in the thread still on the front page 'AppImage?'

https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/appimage.387766/

https://bintray.com/probono/AppImages