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mikeslr · Posted: Tue 18 Sep 2012, 10:21 Post_subject: Links to Many Portable Linux Apps

I don't think portable linux apps otherwise show up in the Additional Software subforum. Therefore, this post.

Originally discovered by Stu90, and explored by Lobster and myself, portable linux apps are like portable XP apps, except for Linux: portable because they aren't installed but rather run as a Self-contained, external Program Folder. By self-contained I mean that all their necessary libs and dependencies are included. its use will not conflict with any libs or applications you installed or SFSes you loaded.
They are not developed for Puppy, but are generic builds tested in Ubuntu and two other major distributions. Consequently, they should run OOTB in Ubuntu "derivatives" like Lupu and precise. They may run in others Puppy Variants. Beyond the bandwidth necessary to download them, you risk nothing by trying them because they are entirely self-contained: if they don't work, its a simple matter to delete them.
When available, a pet or sfs designed for Puppy may be preferable: smaller and better adapted to the Puppy environment. On the other hand, you may find some portable linux apps for which there are no equivalent Puppy versions, or no equivalent that does not conflict with some other application you want to run.

http://portablelinuxapps.org/
Click the category icons which, unfortunately, do not have labels.
or use the following, perhaps, different list:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/portable/files/

Instructions for their use does not appear to be easily located. This is from memory: Download (to a Linux partition?). Make executable. Click to run. Optional: Drag and Drop to Desktop, or create a .desktop file in /usr/share/applications/ to include in Menu.

mikesLr

e_mattis · Joined: 20 Dec 2012 Posts: 102 Location: Williamston, SC

thanks! will give em a look-over.

sunburnt · Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 4016 Location: Arizona, U.S.A.

Looks like the apps. offered are at least 2 years old. Needs updating.

The nice thing about the AppDir - RoxApp is there`s no real overall format.
They can be built in whatever fashion that`s easiest to do that works.
And there are no incompatibilities between them as they are self contained.

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6663 Location: lisbon

Portable YouTube Downloader 3.3 & Firefox 20.0 both work on lupu.