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we are planning to make a collection of softwares,and since most of the users of this collection are somehow new to linux we don't want them bother dealing with dependencies so we are trying to use bin files which i think embeds dependencies into itself and easily gets installed without having to connect to internet to get needed files or any trouble like realplayer or googleEarth
any ideas how we could reach this?
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ps:if you have any other solutions for this software collection we would be so appriciated if u share with us
Each distribution, and then each version of that distribution will require different shared libraries, etc. But that's what things like RPMs, or .deb files are for. You may have noticed that there are various versions of a given RPM (or other package format) for any given piece of software. Its not trivial.
Now, if you have a standard platform, there is nothing preventing you from packaging a piece of software into a meta-package; in fact, there are many such packages.
Perhaps it would best for you to a) define your target audience, OS (and version(s)), and b) gain some experience with the various packaging and installation mechanisms that exist, and c) learn more about how conflicting libraries can render a system inoperable.
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