README.md

Portable Packages

raison d'être

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ℹ️ This used to be a sister project to Azathothas/Toolpacks

Contents

• 📖 Docs & FAQs 📖

• What? & Why?
• How does it all actually work?
• Request a new PKG/Tool
• 📦📀 Frontend Package Managers
• 📦📀 Package Formats

• 📀$PKG.AppBundle📦
• 📀$PKG.AppImage📦
• 📀$PKG.Archives📦
• 📀$PKG.FlatImage📦
• 📀$PKG.GameImage📦
• 📀$PKG.NixAppImage📦
• 📀$PKG.RunImage📦

• Typos, Grammatical Errors & Bad Documentation
• How To Contribute/Donate
• Why NOT Host On GitHub
• 🖳 STATIC BINARIES 📦
• DMCA & Copyright
• Contact Me

• 🔽 Download 🔽
• 📦📀 Status 🔖
• 🚧 Security ⚙️
• Community 💬

• Loonix () Telegram ➼ https://t.me/official_loonix/63949
• Loonix () Matrix ➼ https://matrix.to/#/#loonix:matrix.org ABANDONED & NOT ACTIVE

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• 📦 Status 🔖

ℹ️ Current Goal is to have ~ 90% $PKGS from the awesome work of @ivan-hc/AM : https://portable-linux-apps.github.io

🧰 Architecture 🧰	📦 Total PKGs 📦	🇨🇭 WorkFlows 🇨🇭	🧾Logs
Linux aarch64 // arm64	16		BUILD.log
Linux amd // x86_64	72		BUILD.log

• Raw metadata containing info for sources etc is available as JSON on pkgcache.pkgforge.dev/METADATA.json & also as YAML.
• See: Parse METADATA.json to learn how to parse using jq

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🔽 Download 🔽

You can directly download from HuggingFace Repo, but if you want Simple, Seamless & Native Integration, pick a Package Manager

• Dbin

• If you want a pkg-manager in Go & Inbuilt Integration with .AppBundles, Choose this.

Details ➣ https://github.com/xplshn/dbin

wget -qO- "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xplshn/dbin/master/stubdl" | sh -s -- --install "${HOME}/.local/bin/dbin"

• Soar

• If you want a pkg-manager in Rust 🦀, Choose this.

Details ➣ https://github.com/pkgforge/soar

bash <(curl -qfsSL "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pkgforge/soar/refs/heads/main/install.sh")

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• 🚧 Security ⚙️

• An overly long blurb is already written at: Azathothas/Toolpacks/Security, and the same apply here.
• In addition, you should also be aware of:

• r/linux/are_appimages_always_secure ARCHIVED
• boredsquirrel/dont-use-appimages ARCHIVED
• Snaps vs Flatpaks vs Appimages ARCHIVED
• YT/Snaps vs Flatpaks vs Appimages vs Packages
• The security risks of Flathub ARCHIVED
• Flatpak - an insecurity nightmare ARCHIVED
• YT/Your favourite Linux packaging format isn’t as secure as you think…

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