klik

[mark]

Thought this might be useful to some.

From their wiki:

klik strives to be the easiest way to download and run software, without installation.

klik creates self-contained "application images" which can run from anywhere (even from an USB thumbdrive or CD-RW), or be copied to a different Linux computer and used there.

klik "ingredients" are downloadable from the web and are converted into the respective self-contained package with a single click, even while running a Live-CD.

Because one software package is always exactly just one compressed cmg file, you can always delete software packages without any problems for other software. Because you can save cmg files everywhere, this solution is very flexible.

klik Is

* An easy way to download and run software -- without installing it

* 1 File = 1 Application

* Safe to use -- it never interferes with your existing system

* An easy way to distribute applications

* Able to run in user space without root/sudo

klik Is Not

* A package management system. It doesn't strive to replace apt-get, dpkg, rpm, yum, apt4rpm, portage, smart, autopackage or what-have-you.

* klik is not a Microsoft Windows application

(klik is currently to be regarded as "usable alpha" quality, meaning: not all packages work for all distros/users. But if a package works, it works normally quite well. Try it, and don't give up after the first failure -- try another one then.)

Home page.

DL

[prathapml]

Interesting, gotta keep an eye on this!

Thank you

[tain]

Didn't Linspire already do that? It sounds similar to a few things I've heard of in the Linux realm.

[bj-kaiser]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click'N'Run

Linspire's CNR builds on Debian's APT package management. It will just like in every other APT-based distri resolve dependencies by downlowading the missing packages, if I understand it right.

Klik on the other hand means, that every app and its dependencies is self-contained in one single file. I think on Macs there is a similar system available.