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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppImage
Sources
Upstream prebuilt if it exists & is actively maintained
Community created prebuilts if official prebuilt doesn't exist & we can't build from source
HOST)Fuse: Required for mounting Filesystems & Images (Can still be run with --appimage-extract-and-run | APPIMAGE_EXTRACT_AND_RUN=1)
Fonts: Required to display/render Non-English Chars, Emojis, Symbols etc.
Kernel User NameSpaces: Required for Sandboxing, Security & Performance
AppImages have no built-in sandboxing
There exists third party tools like aisap , but we DO NOT RECOMMEND it as it is not actively maintained
WARNINGS
NEVER run strip, objcopy or any other binary rewriting tool as they will often just strip the squashfs|dwarfs archive, only preserving the runtime.
A typical .appimage file is not a real elf binary, thus will not survive this process.
On NixOS, you will need to follow: https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Appimage
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