[Klug-general] A common app install framework for Linux

[Peter Frost]

On 03/02/2011 13:23, "David Halliday" <david.halliday at gmail.com> wrote:

>This article: 
>http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/OpenSUSE-hosts-meetings-on-common-
>app-installer/ 
><http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/OpenSUSE-hosts-meetings-on-common
>-app-installer/?kc=rss>
>Discusses the idea of a common application installation framework across
>distributions. 




There was already a project which tried to address this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopackage

I've not tried it myself. It made some waves a couple of years back but
doesn't seem to have been widely adopted.

It appears that it's morphed into http://listaller.nlinux.org/

Pete