Batis

Batis is a way to distribute and install desktop applications on Linux. Users can get up to date software directly from the authors, whichever Linux distribution they use.

Any user can install a Batis package, even if they don’t have Batis installed. Packages are regular tarballs, and include a standalone install script to run at the command line. See Packaging an application to distribute your program like this.

• Installing Batis
• Installing applications
  • Uninstalling applications
  • Adapting applications not packaged with Batis
• Packaging an application
  • Dependencies
  • The index file
• FAQs
  • Security
  • Why not use Linux distro packaging?
  • Can I distribute proprietary applications using Batis?
  • Where do I upload packages?
  • ‘Batis’ - The name

Links

Batis on Github

Source code, bug reports, etc.

Example applications

Working examples of packaged applications