Links to Many Portable Linux Apps

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Links to Many Portable Linux Apps

#1 Post by mikeslr »

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.

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#2 Post by e_mattis »

thanks! will give em a look-over.

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#3 Post by sunburnt »

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.

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#4 Post by muggins »

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

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#5 Post by KentC »

I'm using Pup431 and can't get any of these to work.

The concept to make them work is easy:

download to /dir
chmod a+x bin file
./bin OR click on it in GUI

Tried all these methods and none worked. Unless someone else knows how to in this version, I don't think you can.
They are self-contained, and highlight in green text in rvxt once ready, but still a no go.

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Install portable app

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KentC wrote:I'm using Pup431 and can't get any of these to work.
Kent C.
Has anyone figured out why this won't work? I am also using 431 and want to upgrade the version of Glade included in Puppy with version 3.6.7 which is listed on this site but it won't run. Can't find it anywhere else.

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#7 Post by 8-bit »

Have you tried starting the portable application from a terminal and seeing what shows up in relation to the application not starting?

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8-bit wrote:Have you tried starting the portable application from a terminal and seeing what shows up in relation to the application not starting?
When I run it from a terminal I receive the message: "No such file or directory". I'm wondering if you have to do something with this file first; could it be compressed?

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#9 Post by Semme »

Compressed? Nah, they're all single binaries.

Rt-clk >> perms >> a+x=yes. Below left >> executable = -rwxr-xr-x

Image

Then, same directory.. rt-clk any blank area >> window >> terminal here, then >> ./program_exec to fire!

For ./ to work, you've gotta be in the same directory as the executable.

pwd :wink: will confirm *where* you are..

If she don't fire, the shell's gonna tell you why.

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Ahh.. good'ol libc.so.6! Searching reveals.. Novell offers a 8) solution..

And hey, whaddaya know >> IT WORKS!
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Glade upgrade

#10 Post by 431user »

Semme wrote: For ./ to work, you've gotta be in the same directory as the executable.
Same directory.
Ahh.. good'ol libc.so.6! Searching reveals.. Novell offers a 8) solution.!
Not a clue what you mean by this.

And hey, whaddaya know >> IT WORKS!
Not quite, here's the result I got:

# ./Glade367
shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory
./Glade367: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.7' not found (required by ./lib/libgladeui-1.so.9)
./Glade367: /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2: no version information available (required by ./lib/libgladeui-1.so.9)
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even 64bits applications are available

#11 Post by Pelo »

even 64bits applications are available. Address still valid 2016. Furthermore stuuf is updated. Our Puppy's users with 64 bits running will be glad to find something fast fitting to their powerful computer.
Feed back is welcome :wink:
"Objectives
The AppImage format has been created with specific objectives in mind.

Be Simple. AppImage is intended to be a very simple format that is easy to understand, create, and manage.
Maintain binary compatibility. AppImage is a format for binary software distribution. Software packaged as AppImage is intended to be as binary-compatible as possible with as many systems as possible. The need for (re-)compilation of software should be greatly reduced....
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Appimages (portable apps)

#12 Post by rodocop »

24 more or less popular apps in Appimage format (portable package for any Linux)

Includes: latest Chromium, Firefox, LibreOffice, VLC, Blender, Arduino, Krita, Geany, QCad, Scribus etc.

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#13 Post by ally »

I've created a page on the archive for any portable apps I find

http://archive.org/details/Puppy_Linux_Portable_Apps

:)

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#14 Post by rodocop »

Don't forget some 'portabilizers' by shinobar ('***-portable's among the listed software)

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#15 Post by ally »

thanks rodo, uploading now

:)

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#16 Post by rodocop »

QtWeb portable (official site)

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#17 Post by kuman11 »

That list probably needs som updating ...

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mypaint v2.0.0-alpha.12

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mypaint v2.0.0-alpha.12
Latest version of mypaint has improvements to flood fill

https://github.com/mypaint/mypaint/rele ... 2.AppImage
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