[feature request] please create appImage, with all dependencies inside

[vitaly-zdanevich]

Hi, so appImage will be possible to use on any linux distribution.

[sudodus (nio-wiklund)]

Universal package formats like Flatpak, Snap, and AppImages can be installed on many major Linux versions. They provide a centralized location for downloading apps.

What makes you suggest the AppImage format?

-o-

Do you really think that there are lots of users of other linux distros than Ubuntu and Debian, who would start using mkusb?

In that case, which tools do you expect people to use? Do you think people want persistent live drives of various linux distros? Or only plain live (live-only) systems? Or mainly installers (to create installed systems)?

[vitaly-zdanevich (vitaliy-zdanevich)]

> Do you really think that there are lots of users of other linux distros than Ubuntu and Debian, who would start using mkusb?

Yes... I think that appImage is one of the defaults formats - every app should be possible to get in appImage also - because we do not need a package manager for it, and all dependencies inside. For an emergency - when deb or tar.gz is broken, or linux distribution without mkusb in official repo.

> In that case, which tools do you expect people to use?

Tools to get the appImage? Different tools, sometimes I create ebuilds for Guru that fetches appImage version of a software.

> Do you think people want persistent live drives of various linux distros?

Its also, generally making of live USB to recover their systems.

> installed systems

I would love to have a website where we can fetch images of preinstalled images :( or mkusb can install real Ubuntu to USB?

[sudodus (nio-wiklund)]

I would answer yes, mkusb can install real Ubuntu to USB.

But it depends on what you mean by 'install' and 'real Ubuntu', because mkusb is a tool that can

- create USB boot drives by cloning
- create persistent live drives
- extract and clone from a compressed image file

but it is not an installer of the kind that is usually part of a live system (for example Ubiquity, Subiquity, Calamares).