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Using AppImage apps

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Using AppImage apps

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- [Instructor] AppImage provides a method of packaging and distributing apps, such that we can just click on and run them, as we might on a Windows system or a Mac. AppImage apps can run on any supported distribution. So, they make distributing software easy for developers, and it makes running software easy for end users. Let's take a few moments to work with AppImage. An AppImage app that I've been using lately is Beekeeper Studio, a program for connecting to and interacting with database servers of all sorts. I'll visit their webpage at beekeeperstudio.io. Here, I'll make sure that I'm on the Linux section of the downloads, and I'll choose the AppImage option to download it. I'll download the correct version for my architecture, which here in my virtual machine on my Xeon Workstation is x86 64. That's probably what you need too, but if you're unsure, you can check your system's architecture with uname-p. Once the file is…

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