Re: appimage magic

2024-11-12 Thread David Wright
On Tue 12 Nov 2024 at 05:14:50 (+), fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > On Mon, 11 Nov 2024, David Wright wrote: > > On Tue 12 Nov 2024 at 02:47:21 (+), fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > >> i down loaded super_program.appimage > >> on the command line i type ./super_program.appimage > >> how do

Re: appimage magic

2024-11-12 Thread Anssi Saari
fxkl4...@protonmail.com writes: > i don't see anything in that about appimage AppImages are ELF binaries. So the answer to your question "how does my debian powered device know what to do", is that it knows how to run ELF format binaries. I'd assume there are technical descriptions available on h

Re: appimage magic

2024-11-11 Thread tomas
On Tue, Nov 12, 2024 at 05:14:50AM +, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > On Mon, 11 Nov 2024, David Wright wrote: > > > On Tue 12 Nov 2024 at 02:47:21 (+), fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > >> i down loaded super_program.appimage > >> on the command line i type ./super_program.appimage > >> h

Re: appimage magic

2024-11-11 Thread fxkl47BF
On Mon, 11 Nov 2024, David Wright wrote: > On Tue 12 Nov 2024 at 02:47:21 (+), fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: >> i down loaded super_program.appimage >> on the command line i type ./super_program.appimage >> how does my debian powered device know what to do > > It looks at the file signature,

Re: appimage magic

2024-11-11 Thread David Wright
On Tue 12 Nov 2024 at 02:47:21 (+), fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > i down loaded super_program.appimage > on the command line i type ./super_program.appimage > how does my debian powered device know what to do It looks at the file signature, or "magic number", in the first few bytes of the f