Provide portable version for Linux
See original GitHub issuePlease provide a portable version (application bundle) for Linux that can be run without the need to install anything first on the machine, for example an AppImage.
Providing an AppImage would have, among others, these advantages:
- Applications packaged as an AppImage can run on many distributions (including Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, CentOS, elementaryOS, Linux Mint, and others)
- One app = one file = super simple for users: just download one AppImage file, make it executable, and run
- No unpacking or installation necessary
- No root needed
- No system libraries changed
- Works out of the box, no installation of runtimes needed
- Optional desktop integration with
appimaged
- Optional binary delta updates, e.g., for continuous builds (only download the binary diff) using AppImageUpdate
- Can optionally GPG2-sign your AppImages (inside the file)
- Works on Live ISOs
- Can use the same AppImages when dual-booting multiple distributions
Here is an overview of projects that are already distributing upstream-provided, official AppImages.
This would address the Linux part of https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole/issues/173.
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No fault to Warner, the package ecosystem for Python is just a mess and I finally gave up. I’m using croc instead, which was inspired by wormhole, but as it is written in Golang it compiles down to a single static binary with few dependencies. Runs cross-platform.
https://github.com/schollz/croc
@meejah http://lmgtfy.com/?q=AppImage%2C+snapcraft+and+flatpak