AppImage: portable software

[fullmoonremix]

Salutations...

I quote our fearless leader...

If the issue really IS using systemd, then let them come running. We won't be using it.

(see... http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php? ... ees#p40612 )

Summoning the "daemon" (pun intended) is the perfect analogy for systemd.

...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARJ8cAGm6JE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrf0cH4o_g4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvayPCoHGFE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRq7Muf6CKg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrBdYmStZJ4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6o881n35GU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5MDGMvrSJc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsMC6d8 ... 6GZFWModmK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mqDjcGgE5I

(see also... Software bloat ... Wirth's law and Feature creep )

"Best Regards"...

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[brokenman]

From my experience you had better put an end to this systemd argument or change the thread name. It will hijack the thread.

BTW: Porteus already has something like snap. Open a root terminal and type: bundles

[fullmoonremix]

Salutations...

From my experience you had better put an end to this systemd argument or change the thread name. It will hijack the thread.

Yep. So I will end this the way I always do. (Yet again...) I am agnostic so
for me it's always six of one half dozen of the other and to each his own.

(Yet again...) there is NO "top dog" or "magic bullet" in the Linux ecosystem... that's the WindozzZ mantra.
(see... The Cathedral and the Bazaar: "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" ) .

For right or WRONG... it's a BIG tent. So there's room for everybody to do their thing.

However... (speaking for myself) I'm NOT into trending. So for me to sign
on to anything... it has to be better than beta and NOT larger than life.

I for one... prefer steak over the sound of it cooking. If systemd is the next "big" thing then
it should have no problem finding it's way into "Derivatives" where it can prove itself first.

The bottom line is... Slackware (and Porteus by extension) one of the oldest and most respected distros
has chosen (for very compelling and highly credible reasons already given) NOT to drink the " Ambrosia "
(see... Jim Jones: Deaths in Jonestown ) and jump on the (RedHat/Micro$oft) bandwagon @ this time.


"Best Regards"...

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[Bogomips]

As long as snapd has been ported to their linux distro it will just work.

Sounds like it has a dependency on systemd no?

On 3.1 was able to get Nautilus, Files, Nemo, Truecrypt, and latest version of Hanbrake going, all of which had systemd dependency. This was done by providing a systemd module. IMHO it could be discretionary. If one is not worried about tainting the system with systemd, then one just activates a systemd module, followed by whichever snap modules one requires. Otherwise one stays clear of snap, and Porteus can remain pure as the driven snow. 8)

[fullmoonremix]

Salutations...

...Porteus can remain pure as the driven snow.

Now that is a reasonable approach that even I can sign on to

I'm a firm believer in... "if it ain't broke don't fix it" and the KISS principle: In software development

"Best Regards"...

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[wread]

I downloaded QCad and it worked; then I moved the already made executable file to rootcopy and restarted the machine...

The app installs itself in /, and it works! But it occupies 77MB of live memory! Now suppose you have 10 favorite applications of that size....big big s*^#t

But Porteus has another option: put the 10 downloaded files in optional and work in AF mode: Genial

Only when you need this particular application you install it by clicking the file in optional and go! After you are done just restart the machine and you have it clean again!

[fullmoonremix]

Salutations...
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Yep. Just like I thought. Perfect for "optional". Sounds like a plan... for apps that are not in the repo.

"Best Regards"...

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[wread]

AppImage, of couse!

Now I also downloaded krita-3.0, made it executable and moved it to optional. Done.

Regards!

[wread]

Did you try this bundle https://cloud.mail.ru/public/6snZ/7M1HUYidm by Bogomips?
It works for me

[Bogomips]

^^^ Try it and find out!

[Evan]

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[Bogomips]

Dabbling with an AppImage. In this instance, SimpleScreenRecorder:

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guest@porteus:~$ file  tmp64/*.AppImage
tmp64/SimpleScreenRecorder-0.3.8+1.glibc2.14-x86_64.AppImage: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=6489074bb7dca105dd827fc7af867d07100e1480, stripped

guest@porteus:~$ ls -lh tmp64/*.AppImage
-rwxr-xr-x 1 guest users 27M Feb 22 13:15 tmp64/SimpleScreenRecorder-0.3.8+1.glibc2.14-x86_64.AppImage*

Seeing if loading such a large file into RAM would make a difference: (Using Ed's Name Trick)

• Create flat filesystem

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  guest@porteus:~$ dd if=/dev/zero of=SimpleScrRec.xzm bs=1024 count=32768
  32768+0 records in
  32768+0 records out
  33554432 bytes (34 MB, 32 MiB) copied, 0.659631 s, 50.9 MB/s
  
  guest@porteus:~$ ls -lh  SimpleScrRec.xzm
  -rw-r--r-- 1 guest users 32M Apr 14 14:07 SimpleScrRec.xzm
  
  guest@porteus:~$ /sbin/mkfs.ext2 SimpleScrRec.xzm
  mke2fs 1.43.3 (04-Sep-2016)
  Discarding device blocks: done
  Creating filesystem with 32768 1k blocks and 8192 inodes
  Filesystem UUID: 00ab7b78-429b-41dd-aa34-6342240a9835
  Superblock backups stored on blocks:
          8193, 24577
  
  Allocating group tables: done
  Writing inode tables: done
  Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
  

• Insert Programs

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  guest@porteus:~$ mkdir ssr; sudo  mount  SimpleScrRec.xzm ssr
  guest@porteus:~$ sudo bsdtar xf tmp64/usm/tree-1.6.0-x86_64-1.txz -C ssr usr/bin/tree
  guest@porteus:~$ sudo cp -p tmp64/SimpleScreenRecorder-0.3.8+1.glibc2.14-x86_64.AppImage  ssr/usr/bin/
  
  guest@porteus:~$ tree ssr
  ssr
  ├── lost+found [error opening dir]
  └── usr
      └── bin
          ├── SimpleScreenRecorder-0.3.8+1.glibc2.14-x86_64.AppImage
          └── tree
  3 directories, 2 files
  guest@porteus:~$ ls -lh ssr/usr/bin/
  total 27M
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 guest users 27M Feb 22 13:15 SimpleScreenRecorder-0.3.8+1.glibc2.14-x86_64.AppImage*
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root  root  61K May  2  2012 tree*
  

• Statistics

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  guest@porteus:~$ df -h ssr
  Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
  /dev/loop10      31M   28M  2.4M  93% /home/guest/ssr
  guest@porteus:~$ sudo du -sh ssr
  27M     ssr
  guest@porteus:~$ sudo umount ssr
  
  guest@porteus:~$ ls -lh  SimpleScrRec.xzm
  -rw-r--r-- 1 guest users 32M Apr 14 15:05 SimpleScrRec.xzm
  guest@porteus:~$ du -h  SimpleScrRec.xzm
  27M     SimpleScrRec.xzm
  

• Extract from /var/log/porteus-livedbg (Cinnamon 3.2.2):

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  # Modules activated during boot time:
  /memory/copy2ram/000-kernel.xzm
  /memory/copy2ram/001-core.xzm
  /memory/copy2ram/002-xorg.xzm
  /memory/copy2ram/003-cinnamon.xzm
  /memory/copy2ram/SimpleScrRec.xzm
  /mnt/sda10/xzm64/flashplayer-plugin-23.0.0.207-x86_64-1.xzm
  /mnt/sda10/xzm64/geany-1.25-x86_64-1_slack.xzm
  /mnt/sda10/xzm64/gecko-mediaplayer-1.0.9-x86_64-1alien.xzm
  /mnt/sda10/xzm64/lt_080816-x86_64.xzm
  /mnt/sda10/xzm64/man-files-3.2.2-noarch-1.xzm
  /mnt/sda10/xzm64/terminator-0.97-x86_64-1sl.xzm
  

Did not notice any striking difference. Not sure if such a large binary is copied piecemeal for execution or the whole loaded into RAM before execution begins.