Packaged Applications

[geffers]

Folks,

I vaguely understand the move towards self contained packaged applications nowadays such as flatpacks, snaps, appimages, docker etc but I have a couple of programs whereby the applications is downloaded as a compressed image, once decompressed the resulting folder has quite a few files but the app is run by running the executable file.

Two such programs I use regularly are Seamonkey and Virtual Radar Server. I know with these there is no menu integration but curious what they are referred to as.

Geoff

[Mauser]

The idea of Flatpak is if you can't find the software in the repo you can get it from Flatpak and it's safe. Installing software outside of curated repos can be risky since it's not curated. I personal don't like snaps and don't care for appimages which runs programs like Windows does and are not not curated. I never understood docker.

[dolphin_oracle]

Folks,

I vaguely understand the move towards self contained packaged applications nowadays such as flatpacks, snaps, appimages, docker etc but I have a couple of programs whereby the applications is downloaded as a compressed image, once decompressed the resulting folder has quite a few files but the app is run by running the executable file.

Two such programs I use regularly are Seamonkey and Virtual Radar Server. I know with these there is no menu integration but curious what they are referred to as.

Geoff

Mozilla Firefox is available like this too.

They are more like traditional packages except they aren’t managed by the package system.

There really isn’t a format beyond the compressed archive format.

[geffers]

The idea of Flatpak is if you can't find the software in the repo you can get it from Flatpak and it's safe. Installing software outside of curated repos can be risky since it's not curated. I personal don't like snaps and don't care for appimages which runs programs like Windows does and are not not curated. I never understood docker.

Whenever I read about docker it is explained as 'easy', seems quite complicated to me though. I do have one docker app running on a Raspberry Pi, followed instructions to install and it runs fine but must admit I do not understand docker-compose down - docker-compose up --detach - well, it works

Geoff

[geffers]

Mozilla Firefox is available like this too.

They are more like traditional packages except they aren’t managed by the package system.

There really isn’t a format beyond the compressed archive format.

That makes sense, thanks for opinion.

Geoff

[Stevo]

Re: Seamonkey...are you aware we have that in our repository, where we take the binaries from the tar file and wrap them in a deb, along with adding them to the menu and other goodies?

[geffers]

Re: Seamonkey...are you aware we have that in our repository, where we take the binaries from the tar file and wrap them in a deb, along with adding them to the menu and other goodies?

No, I did not realise that, thanks for pointing it out. I don't actually use it that much but quite a handy, simple HTML editor is part of the suite.

Geoff