Packages

Portable package formats

Self-contained formats that carry an application and everything it needs, so it runs on any Linux distribution without being installed into one.

• AppImage, single-file portable applications

• onelf, directories packed into self-contained executables

• AppBundle, portable app bundles

• FlatImage, Flatpak-style sandboxing with AppImage portability

• RunImage, single-file containers

• NixAppImage, AppImages built from Nix derivations

• Archive, extract and run

Soar handles all of them, and a recipe can name any of them as its type. Which ones you actually find in soarpkgs is a question about what upstreams publish rather than about the format: static and appimage cover nearly everything today, with a couple of onelf packages.

Troubleshooting

See Errors & Quirks for the host-side requirements these formats share: FUSE, fonts, and kernel user namespaces.