The app reads data from where it expects to find it, and fires up.Īt shut-down, the sym-link is then removed.Īnd the best bit about all this? If, as & when you want to upgrade to a newer version - which usually occurs sooner or later! - I, personally, don't need to re-build these any more. The first run then 'populates' the config directory.but because this is a sym-link, it's really writing this stuff into the portable directory. On the first run, a config directory is created beside them, and another directory, of exactly the name the app is expecting to create for its profile, is created inside that.Īt run-time, the inner 'config' directory - empty at this point - is sym-linked out to the location where the app normally creates it with a standard package install.

You're not limited to a single machine.Įach 'portable' contains an AppImage, and a 'Launch' script. It's more effective, because this way you can run the app from a flash-drive for the ultimate in portability if you want to, and move from one machine to another. The latter is the approach taken with these portable applications. you have a single copy of those files, contained within the portable itself, which are used by the application every single time it runs (and which leave no trace behind). have a 'common' copy of those config files, sym-linked into each Puppy at the appropriate location, or. Many of us like to run more than one, and for this situation, there's one of two solutions. This is fine if you only ever run one Puppy. Nevertheless, where they do run, there's always that one 'side-effect' I'm NOT so keen on everywhere you run them, they leave behind permanent config files and/or caches.

Loads & loads of these apps will run happily in Puppy some need a bit of tweaking.some won't run at all. Many of you know by now that I'm a huge fan of the AppImage format. Here's a pair of portable video-editors that combine the best aspects of both the AppImage and the 'portable' format. However, for anyone wanting older, 2-series Qt5 AppImage versions - for whatever reason! - they can be found at the project's Github page:. ( NOTICE:- Jonno Thomas & co don't like you using older versions of Openshot there's no link to a repo of older releases on the main site.

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