When I work with graphics, I usually make use of Inkscape, Gimp y xaraLX. The latter, above all, is found in the repositories of Ubuntu but not in those of Debian and therefore I have not been able to install it, because its dependencies are no longer compatible with those of Debian Testing.
Searching the net I found xaraLX in portable version, but to my surprise, that is not the only application available. In the place PortableLinuxApps We can find a wide catalog of applications organized by various categories: Audio & Video, Audio, Video, Development, Education, Games, Graphics, Internet, Repair Shop, Configuration, System y Utilities.
I was taking a look at each category and there are very interesting applications, even many that I normally use and others that I did not even know. Let's see some examples of portable applications that we can find:
Audio & Video
Audacious
Clementine
DeaDBeeF
VLC
Development
Amaya
geany
Compozer
Bluefish
Graphics
Blender
Comix
Day
GIMP
Inkscape
Pinta
Scribus
Xara
Internet
Arora
Chromium
dropbox
Firefox
liferea
Midori
Opera
Pidgin
Skype or Whatsapp
Thunderbird
Toucan
XChat
Puget
Repair Shop
LibreOffice
OpenOffice.org
AbiWord
And they are not the only ones, there are many more. To use them we just have to download the one we want and give it execution permissions. In Debian we have to make sure that our user is in the group fuse. If it is not, we add it:
$ sudo addgroup <usuario> fuse
Well, this is interesting about portable programs, what happens is that having distros that run different packages gives me a bit of a roll compatibility
I think it should work on any distro. Right now I'm working with Xara and Deadbeef portable 😀
You no longer have an excuse not to go to Arch ... well, Xara will work for you in Arch 🙂
I do not see why I will go to arch, if all distros except the unnameable are the same.
This was for elav ... which went from Arch to Debian because Xara didn't compile well.
Not only because of that .. but because I have more packages in the normal repo. In Arch I have to run every two to three to the AUR and compile
How strange what happens to you with Arch always, I've never had to do that
what is the "unnameable" distro xD ahahaha
winbuntu
Very good contribution. Portable 😀
elav
Do you really have to compile each program (Aur) with Arch ???
I use Aur very often, I don't have the need to compile
hello greetings .. one question: what repositories do you have in debian testing?
They not only maintain a good number of applications. They also have tools to create your own "portable" applications. I already did some experiments.
What good distro do you recommend. have gnome shell and usea .deb? oh and that serves for desktop
and that is not ubuntu xD
Do you necessarily have to use .deb? It is that for example OpenSUSE, Fedora, Sabayon or Mageia have GNOME-Shell and I know that they are very very good distros but none of them use .deb ... is it really an indispensable requirement?
LMDE
That it has .DEB as a package, that allows Gnome3 + Shell ... well, LinuxMint or Debian, preferably this second 🙂
Debian which one? the 6th or the testing?
Should they test?
Yep. Using Debian 6 (the current Stable) is using applications that are too outdated, you should use Testing and maybe, if you need it, Debian Unstable (don't be too scared by the name haha).
ready in debian testing .. what I want are some good repositories 😀 do you have some out there that are good?
Good repositories? O_O… what makes some good and others bad O_0U… 🙂
I think they are all the same, or almost the same ... use the official ones, I don't know haha, elav will be able to help you better, he is more Debian than me ^ _ ^
I use Linux Mint, which is based on Ubuntu but this one if it listens to the community and allows them to participate, not to mention that it is always starting projects of the caliber of Cinnamon, for example.
the best one is crunchbang, based on debian with all its repositories, it is perpetual because only programs are updated, very light, I use it in my compaq presario dual core, customized to taste, etc, etc ... I can't find another one that appeals to me, prove zlitaz, suse, mandriva, ubuntu, xubuntu, and many more, the main problem is that I do not know (nor am I interested in) compiling anything, if I want a program I install it from the repository or from the internet xxxxx.deb and that's it
Back to the blog guys 8D
This portable free apps thing is not very new to me, I say it because I use an application for windows called portableapps that mainly uses free programs. But it is when I get rebellious in classes that they want to teach me closed programs and I challenge the teacher to do the same and better in a free program xD
It looks good to have them already portable to use directly in Linux: 3
HAHA Re-welcome HAHAHA.
Yes yes, I know the APP you say ... uff what memories haha, I had a 2GB pendrive just for that haha.
The only bad thing about this site is that many applications are outdated, and others are even considerably out of date ... Firefox 6? Chromium 8? that's unforgivable ...
Good post.