How to Execute .run Packages in Linux
There are tons of ways to install an application on a Linux system. Most of the methods are so conventional and easy to install. If we look at the package extensions of different Linux distributions, Debian and Ubuntu Linux use the .dep packages. RedHat and Fedora use the .rpm packages to execute and install the package. But what if you can’t find a suitable, installable, and compiled package for a specific package? No worries, you can always find either a .run package file that you can install on your Linux system.
The .run file is the goto run file of a complied package, but they are not an actual package that you can conventionally execute on Linux. However, there are methods that you can apply to make the .run files executable on a Linux system.
Source of .run Packages
If you are a programmer, maybe you already know the source of the .run files. This type of file is created by developers for either quality checking or building a binary package to test the package. But sometimes undergraduate level research students also build .run packages to test some features of any application.
Many developers and users believe that .run files are the source code of any package. I might say that source code is the raw code of any package to edit the code in a script. On the other hand, the .run files are the developed and compiled versions of source codes. As GitHub is the largest repository of source code and packages, you can often find .run packages on GitHub.