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Comment by prmoustache

13 hours ago

That is the point of flatpak or appimage but even before that you could do it by shipping the libraries with your software and use LD_LIBRARY_PATH to link your software to them.

That was what most well packaged proprietary software used to do when installing into /opt.

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