Designed to run seamlessly on any Linux distribution, including very very old distributions and musl-based ones. Our AppImages bundle all the needed dependencies and do not depend on host libraries to work, unlike most other AppImages, all while being significantly smaller thanks to DwarFS and optimized packages.
Most of the AppImages are made with sharun. We also use an alternative better runtime.
The uruntime automatically falls back to using namespaces if FUSE is not available at all, and if namespaces are not possible it falls back to extract and run, so we truly have 0 requirements:
| Format | Requirements |
|---|---|
| Traditional AppImages (made by linuxdeploy or similar tools) | Hard dependency on glibc (rarely works on distros older than 4 years), also has a soft dependency on FUSE since the user has to manually extract when FUSE is unavailable, they also need an FHS compliant system to work. |
| Flatpak | Hard dependency on bubblewrap and FUSE. Must be supported by your distribution or be manually built and installed systemwide which requires elevated rights. |
| Snap | Similar requirements to flatpak minus bubblewrap, has a hard dependency on systemd. |
| AnyLinux AppImages (made with sharun) | Use FUSE if available, else fallback to using namespaces and if that is not possible then we automatically extract to TMPDIR and run with post cleanup, we do not need an FHS filesystem and do not depend on the host libc, so eh make sure you have /bin/sh and write access to /tmp??? (If you can boot to a graphical session you already met those requirements). How is this possible? See: How to guide |
| AnyLinux AppImages (made with RunImage) | Similar to sharun AppImages but have a Hard dependency on namespaces, Lutris and virt-manager are the only ones that use this method, pending migration to sharun. |
Also see other projects that use sharun for more. Didn't find what you were looking for? Open an issue here and we will see what we can do.
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