Bug 65512 - Support for applications distributed in appdir format
Summary: Support for applications distributed in appdir format
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: kde
Classification: I don't know
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: openSUSE Linux
: LO wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Unassigned bugs mailing-list
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Reported: 2003-10-04 23:57 UTC by Christoph Eckert
Modified: 2018-02-23 20:48 UTC (History)
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Description Christoph Eckert 2003-10-04 23:57:45 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.1.3)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

KDE should support the appdir format (as it is supported by rox filer), so an application and all its files are in one single directory which contains the app named AppRun. A single click on this directory will run the application.

This way, a user can install software easily without root privileges.

Please add support for this format to KDE.
Comment 1 Christoph Eckert 2003-10-05 15:20:53 UTC 
Well, there are currently less applicatioins which offer AppDIr-Packages, but 
maybe there would be more if KDE (and other desktops/window managers) would 
support this format.
Comment 2 Stephan Binner 2003-10-09 21:31:06 UTC 
Better change rox filer to support 
http://freedesktop.org/Standards/desktop-entry-spec than change KDE to change 
rox
Comment 3 Ben Creasy 2018-02-23 20:48:05 UTC 
These days it seems like "AppRun" is AppImage (https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit) - basing this guess on things like https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38772874/apprun-file-format.

I've had reasonable success with appimaged (https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/blob/09dfd37b6115881800fd35489b413032942b9859/README.md#appimaged-usage).

Feel free to comment / reopen if it's not working.