Chapter 8. Alternative solutions

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Statifier and Ermine
What are pros and cons of this approach ?
Pros
Cons
Statifier/Ermine and Autopackage

Autopackage is a tool for creating portable application, that can be run on the wide range of the Linux distributions. But still binary portability is not an easy thing - Binary Portability

So what can be done if executable created with autopackage not portable enough ?

Statifier and Ermine

There are two packagers

Those programs use different approach: them create from dynamically linked executable and all it's libraries one file.

This file can be copied to another machine without need to drag any library with it.

Statifier and Ermine feature comparison can be found here.