How To Use AppImage in Linux (step-by-step)
What’s better than using an app without a distribution barrier?
DEB and RPM packages are very common and have been in use for ages. But, what if I told you there was a way to download an application on your Ubuntu machine copy it, and run it on Fedora without changing a thing. Wouldn’t that be interesting?
AppIMage makes this possible, it is easy and convenient. Ignore the hyperlink for a second, let me tell you what this is;
The Appimage format allows you to download a single application and run it, no installation required the very same application can be run on other distributions without the need of a specific version for your distribution, one — for — all!
Picture Linux distributions as a single OS, that’s what AppImage gives you (kind of). Picture the open source video player VLC in AppImage format, the same would run on Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Fedora, Manjaro, and Arch Linux just to name a few. A single app for all just like you get when you download .exe files on Windows and specific Mac apps.
Now that we know what an AppImage file is how do we run it?
Running an AppImage file is incredibly easy and can be done in two easy steps.
