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## Conty
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This is an easy to use non-root container compressed into squashfs and packed
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into a single executable that runs (or at least should run) on most Linux distros.
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You can use it to run any applications, including games (Vulkan and OpenGL).
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Besides, due to bubblewrap, Conty also supports true filesystem sandboxing, so you can even use it to sandbox
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your applications.
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In other words, it's a portable Arch Linux distro packed into a single executable that can be used to run any applications. Conty combines benefits of
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flatpak and AppImage.
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It uses two technologies:
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* SuqashFS (using [squashfuse](https://github.com/vasi/squashfuse))
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* Linux namespaces (using [bubblewrap](https://github.com/containers/bubblewrap))
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## Benefits
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* Single executable - download (or create) and run, nothing else it required.
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* Root rights are **not required**.
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* Compressed into squashfs, so it takes much less disk space than
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unpacked containers.
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* Contains many libraries and packages so it can run almost everything. And you don't
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need to install anything on your main (host) system. **You can even run 32-bit applications
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on pure 64-bit systems**.
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* Based on Arch Linux, so it contains latest software, including latest
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videodrivers.
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* Almost completely seamless experience. All applcations that you run
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with Conty store their configs in your HOME directory as if you wouldn't
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use container at all.
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* Supports filesystem sandboxing.
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## Requirements
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The only requirements are **bash**, **fuse2** and **tar**. And your /tmp directory
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should allow binaries execution (which it does by default on most distros).
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Also, your Linux kernel must support unprivileged user namespaces. On some
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Linux distros this feature is disabled by default and can be enabled with sysfs:
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```
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sysctl kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone=1
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```
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or
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```
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echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/unprivileged_userns_clone
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```
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## Usage
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Either download ready-to-use executable from the [**releases**](https://github.com/Kron4ek/Conty/releases) page or create your
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own (the instructions are below). Make it executable before run.
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```
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chmod +x conty.sh
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./conty.sh command command_arguments
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```
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For example, if you want to run an application from your HOME or from somewhere on your storage run something like:
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```
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./conty.sh /full/path/to/a/binary
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```
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Conty also contains Steam, Lutris, Wine-Staging and much more.
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```
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./conty.sh steam
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./conty.sh lutris
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./conty.sh wine app.exe
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```
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Want to check if graphics acceleration works? Run glxinfo and glxgears:
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```
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./conty.sh glxinfo | grep direct
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./conty.sh glxgears
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```
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List all built-in binaries with:
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```
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./conty.sh ls /usr/bin
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```
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## Sandbox
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Conty uses bubblewrap and thus supports filesystem sandboxing. By default
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it's disabled and all directories on your system are available for the container.
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You can enable sandboxing with the **SANDBOX** environment variable. You can allow
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access to directories and/or files you want with the **BIND** variable. And it's
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also possible to disable network with the **DISABLE_NET**. For instance:
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```
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export DISABLE_NET=1
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export SANDBOX=1
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export BIND="/home/username/.steam /home/username/.local/share/Steam"
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./conty.sh steam
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```
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## How to create your own Conty executables
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If you want to create Arch-based container then use the **create-arch-bootstrap.sh** script. Root rights
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are required for this step, because chrooting is used here.
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```
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./create-arch-bootstrap.sh
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```
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You can edit the script if you want to include different set of packages inside
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the container.
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If you want to use some other distro, then you need to manually obtain it from somewhere.
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When distro bootsrap is obtained, use the **create-conty.sh** script to pack
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everything into a single executable.
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```
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./create-conty.sh
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```
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Done!
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