OS/Linuxhelp wantedpriority/P5setup/installersuggestion
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Description
Carried over from https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/issues/10250
Description
I would like to try out your browser but without letting it change repositories or libraries in my system.
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.
If you are interested, I am happy to help you make it happen. Just let me know.
Latest status
@posix4e has set this up for browser-laptop; it was never officially released though