There are ways to install software in MODICIA O.S. , Downloading .deb or .targz files and double click on them to install software. Recently, you might have noticed that some applications are downloaded with an extension .appimage.
A. What is AppImage?
AppImage is a universal software package format. By packaging the software in AppImage, the developer provides just one file.
AppImage features:
No need of installing and compiling software: Just click
System files are not touched.
Apps are in read only mode.
Software are removed just by deleting the file.
Using AppImage is fairly imple steps:
Download AppImage file, make it executable, run it
Step 1: Download .appimage package
Step 2: Make it executable
By default, the downloaded AppImage file won’t have the execution permission. You’ll have to change the permission, just right click on the downloaded .appimage file and select properties, go to the permissions tab and check the box that says “Allow executing file as program”.
Step 3: Run the AppImage file
Once you have made the AppImage file executable, just double click on it to run it.
C. How to uninstall AppImage software
Just delete the associated AppImage file and your software is removed from the system.
D. Things to remember while using AppImage in Linux
There are few additional things about AppImage that you should know.
The concept of AppImage is to have all the dependency inside the package itself.
There are other “universal Linux apps” like Ubuntu Snap but these create a virtual partition and in our opinion complicate things. In addition .Appimage is updated much more frequently to the latest releases of the application (some like Kdenlive every day) allowing you to always have new functions and bug fixes.