Am Dienstag, 17. Februar 2026, 14:45:05 Mitteleuropäische Normalzeit schrieb Michael Keller (catch-all) via subsurface: > Hi Martin. > > On 17/02/2026 21:04, Martin Gysel via subsurface wrote: > > are old distros really a problem given the fact that subsurface gets > > distributed as AppImage in which all deps could be bundled? > > This is kind of a 'chicken and egg' thing - the AppImage is built by > installing Subsurface into an old distro, and then scraping and > packaging all of the dependencies into the AppImage binary. And > typically it will run on anything that is as old as the distro used > during the build, or newer. > > So with sufficient support for Qt6 not available in anything older than > 24.10, the AppImage will be very limited in where it can run on.
I don't think so. The AppImage only provides a basic runtime [1] (type2 is based in apline linux). As long as the used libraries run on that runtime, everything is OK (because the runtime itself is designed to run on older systems). AFAIK ,as an example, the provided pre-compiled Qt libraries from Qt.io should run just fine on that runtime. /martin
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