Distributing binary applications across linux distros

Question

I\'ve written an application which as of yet is not open source and I\'d like to distribute the executable across various linux distros. What\'s the best way to do this, I\'ve l

Answer 1

You should probably provide a native package for each Linux distribution that you officially support (as you officially support them, you'll be testing on them so doing this should be trivial), and provide a .tar.gz which people can drop in for other ones.

Users can always make their own .rpm etc for some alien distribution which you don't support; but they can't complain to you unless it doesn't work on an officially supported OS.

Which OSs do you officially support? You'll obviously need to test on them all (at the very least, you'll need to pass all your regression test suite on each OS on each release).

This is of course complicated if you support multiple architectures.