Portable Linux Apps

[boyzee]

PortableLinuxApps provides portable applications for Linux that you can carry around and use on every Linux computer running one of the supported major distributions

Currently available apps

gPodder 2.5
ffmpeg
emesene 1.6.3 & emesene 1.6.2
aMule 2.2.6
Xara Extreme 0.7
XChat 2.8.6
Wireshark 1.2.2
Viewnior 1.0
Updater 0.0.6 & Updater 0.0.5 & Updater 0.0.4
Tucan Manager 0.3.8
Transmission 1.92
Terminator 0.93
TeamViewer 5
SpiderOak
Shotwell Photo Manager 0.5.0
Scribus 1.3.3.13
RapidSVN 0.12.0
Putty
Pidgin 2.6.6
PeaZip 3.1
Opera 10.70
Olive 0.98.0
NX Client 3.4.0-5
Midori 0.2.6 & Midori 0.2.2
Liferea 1.6.2
Leafpad 0.8.17
Kompozer 0.8b1
Jokosher 0.11.4
JSON Editor 1.1.6
HandBrake svn3332
Gnote 0.5.2
Gloobus Preview 0.4.5
GHex
Flyback Backup Manager 0.6.4
Firefox 1.0
Filezilla 3.3.1
Elficon for Gnome Installer 0.1
EasyTAG 2.1.6
DeaDBeeF 0.4.1
DOSBox 0.73
Coccinella 0.96.18
Chromium 6.0.443
Change Menubar Button Position
CPU-G 0.9
Blender 2.49a
Back In Time 0.9.26
Audacity 1.3.9
Arora 0.10.1
AppImageAssistant

These Apps have been tested on Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx), OpenSUSE 11.2, and Fedora 12. Just Download, Make Executable, and Run!

How to use an app from PortableLinuxApps

* Make sure that you are using one of the supported distributions
* Download an app
* Right-click the downloaded app, select "Properties"
* Click the tab titled "Permissions"
* Check "Execute file as application
* Press "Close"
* Double-click the app to run it

You can also use the command to set the executable bit instead if you prefer the command line.

chmod a+x MyDownloadedApp

Sourceforge page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/portable/

Website: http://portablelinuxapps.org/

Help forum: http://portablelinuxapps.org/forum/

[Alboguy]

Good news boyzee!! Thanks for sharing! I nevev knew that we have portable apps for linux too...

[hellnoire]

I heard about it myself... not much mind you, a StumbleUpon last night brought me to it.

I will honestly say one thing though: it's interesting. Because you have to have the same libraries install on the first machine as the second.

I imagine these all share the same default libraries on most Linux computers, hence why they are "portable"

[Alboguy]

Well...You can pack a Windows application to a .exe file and make it portable. It's not that hard only involves a bit of work. But I'm really curious to know how they did it in linux. I mean linux works on packages and it looks like impossible...

[INDRANIL]

Thanks for the share boyzee . nice one .

[hellnoire]

Well, from source, Alboguy.

You can compile anything from source... a monkey too if you tried!

[johnshaw1917]

Thanks for sharing boyzee! I will definitely have to look into this.

[Alboguy]

Well, from source, Alboguy.

You can compile anything from source... a monkey too if you tried!

Ok cool...

[safeguy]

Firefox 1.0? I'm not a Linux user (yet) but seriously I'd expect a more current version if I was one...

And nope, before anyone here mentions "compiling from source"...let me just say that tons of users out there have better things to do and would prefer the smart geeks to do it for them instead...

P.S. A good move for Linux but I'm still being critical as usual...please don't get offended as I didn't mean to.

[johnshaw1917]

...let me just say that tons of users out there have better things to do and would prefer the smart geeks to do it for them instead....

This is probably true, but for some it would be both a challenge and a learning experience...