[Nix-dev] [***SPAM***] Re: AppImage

[Michael Raskin]

>> BTW, I tried their Chromium AppImages and without success, at least on
>> NixOS. So much for running on any Linux.
>> $ /some/path/Chromium-50.0.2644.0-x86_64.AppImage
>> -bash: /some/path/Chromium-50.0.2644.0-x86_64.AppImage: No such file or
>> directory
>
>I experienced similar thing with Pitivi "universal" package installer.
>It has everything bundled *except* the linker. (I wonder how 0install
>handles the linker.)

Interesting question. Actually, a linker is not such a big part, and it
is easy to ship the proper linker with the package (I actually did that
once and it was easy to get right).

But linker is almost always called the same, so AppImage never cared
enough to check.