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AppImage

self-contained and compressed executable format for the Linux platform

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9 March 2022
The key idea of the AppImage format is one app = one file. (English)
Distribute your desktop Linux application in the AppImage format and win users running all common Linux distributions. (English)
9 March 2022
An .APPIMAGE file is an AppImage package file. (English)
We have not yet described in detail what these files contain and what they are used for, but our team is working tiredlessly through thousands of file formats. (English)
29 November 2010
An AppImage is an ISO 9660 file with zisofs compression containing a minimal AppDir (a directory thatcontains the app and all the files that it requires to run which are not part of the targeted base operatingsystems) and a tiny runtime executable embedded into its header. Hence, an AppImage is both an ISO9660 file (that you can mount and examine) and an ELF executable (that you can execute). (English)
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