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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.

Links

Batis on Github
Source code, bug reports, etc.
Example applications
Working examples of packaged applications