tarball for linux (amd64)

[KonstantinDjairo]

i developed a way to generate fully portable tarball with goldendict-ng and its required libraries, it can be shipped in the same way as firefox and other bigger softwares, i think it's somehow better than using an appimage, which was done in the past.

what do you think about it? it'd be useful so that people wouldn't rely on flatpak

[shenlebantongying]

what do you think about it?

I think it likely contains bugs that are hard/impossible to predict and phantom. For example, supporting popular IME like ibus/fcitx is a good starting bug. Testing on Nvidia card could be a bonus.

“Fully portable” is insanely hard and time-consuming to fix related bugs. People has been working on various solutions of “Fully portable” for decades, and both chromium and Qt are pretty complex. Flakpak/Snap (somewhat a lightweight VM) is currently the most reliable approach to do such thing, despite their sandbox model sometimes causes problems (In fact, the system of your choice Guix/Nix is another solution close to perfection, but it requires lots of learning.).

Make a software available to Linux distros' registries is still the best approach for better reliability and user experience.

Anyway, feel free to demonstrate your work and prove me wrong by maybe

• Send PR that have a script to auto product it
• Or just show code
• Or attach such binary to prove that it works
• Or show proof that it works on at least one or two popular systems such as ubuntu22.04 & 24.04, debian stable, fedora, openSUSE...
  • (and special distros like cutting edge systems like arch/nix/guix/gentoo, or esoteric libc systems like void/alphine)

I see absolutely no reason not to accept such improvement if it actually works.

[shenlebantongying]

Good read about the fragmentation of Linux distros https://gitlab.com/probono/platformissues

Practical question:

Why Appimage blocks lots' libraries and what to do with them for creating “fully portable” whatever? https://github.com/AppImageCommunity/pkg2appimage/blob/master/excludelist

[KonstantinDjairo]

proof that it runs at least in void linux:

edit: screenshot deleted upon request of screenshot's original author.

edit: It worked, but with a limitation that it has to be under /.

now i need to test it on ubuntu/fedora, but i think it will run just fine, since void was a hard candidate

edit: the tarball contains all that's needed to run it , that's why it's 715mb, im gonna tweak the generation process a bit more, and when it gets more polished i'll tell you