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Manjaro Linux User Guide

You're reading from   Manjaro Linux User Guide Gain proficiency in Linux through one of its best user-friendly Arch-based distributions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803237589
Length 498 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Atanas Georgiev Rusev Atanas Georgiev Rusev
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Installation, Editions, and Help
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Manjaro and Linux FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Editions Overview and Installation 4. Chapter 3: Editions and Flavors 5. Chapter 4: Help, Online Resources, Forums, and Updates 6. Part 2: Daily Usage
7. Chapter 5: Officially Supported Software – Part 1 8. Chapter 6: Officially Supported Software Part 2, 3D Games, and Windows SW 9. Chapter 7: All Basic Terminal Commands – Easy and with Examples 10. Part 3: Intermediate Topics for Daily Usage
11. Chapter 8: Package Management, Dependencies, Environment Variables, and Licenses 12. Chapter 9: Filesystem Basics, Structure, and Types, NTFS, Automount, and RAID 13. Chapter 10: Storage, Mounting, Encryption, and Backups 14. Chapter 11: Network Fundamentals, File Sharing, and SSH 15. Chapter 12: Internet, Network Security, Firewalls, and VPNs 16. Part 4: Advanced Topics
17. Chapter 13: Service Management, System Logs, and User Management 18. Chapter 14: System Cleanup, Troubleshooting, Defragmentation, and Reinstallation 19. Chapter 15: Shell Scripts and Automation 20. Chapter 16: Linux Kernel Basics and Switching 21. Index 22. Other Books You May Enjoy

The Flatpak, Snap, and AppImage containers

Many applications are available for any Manjaro graphical environment. However, others are made especially for GNOME, KDE, or another Linux distribution. Thus, there is a difference in the available applications for the different Manjaro flavors.

The Linux community has three technologies to solve this issue – Flatpak, Snap, and AppImage. All these are SW containers, a way to pack a given application written – for example – for the GNOME environment with all their dependencies and provide it to Linux users, using any graphical environment on any distribution. In addition, all three containers also offer an isolation layer, so the given application cannot access your OS internals.

In addition, let's imagine the following situation. Say one app needs the GTK library version 4.6.6 but another needs 4.7.1. Though there are ways to keep both versions, in some rare cases collisions can happen. When each of the two...

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