Packaging Apps for Linux the Easier Way

Posted by brideoflinux on Aug 17, 2016 9:32 AM EDT
Dev Pro; By Christine Hall
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There are now at least three app packaging systems that pretty much ignore a distro's directory hierarchy and do away with the need to find and install dependencies, making them distro agnostic. They all work basically the same way, by including standalone copies of all libraries that would otherwise be shared within the package. This also does away with "dependency hell," which has plagued computer users since the advent of shared libraries.

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