Add support for AppImage distribution about vagrant HOT 8 CLOSED

PR #120

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https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/wiki/AppImages is what you mean? I don't see vagrant listed. Could you update with some more information about what you would like installed and how?

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The AppImage distribution is the generic "Linux" download on the official Vagrant downloads page:

https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html

It's just a zip file containing a single executable.

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@Poohblah I looked and didn't find any documentation explaining that executable. Do you know of some? What OS images should we expect that to run on?
Thanks

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Here's the information I do have:

From the blog post where the AppImage package was announced:

The Vagrant 2.1.0 release includes the initial offering of a generic Linux package for Vagrant. This package includes a single Vagrant executable file which users can install into a directory on their PATH. The Vagrant executable in this package is an AppImage application and is intended for distributions where a native Vagrant package may not available.

I would add that I have also found the AppImage package very useful even for OSes that have a native Vagrant package, since the native package tends to rely on the system Ruby and Gems and this has led to issues with Vagrant having conflicting Ruby and/or Gem requirements with other packages on the system.

As for what OSes it should run on, the executable itself is a 64-bit ELF executable with no link-time dependencies and a run-time dependency on FUSE, so in theory it should run on any 64-bit Linux-based OS with FUSE installed. The AppImage documentation says that OS compatibility depends on how the packager made the package, but I can't find any official statements from Hashicorp about precisely what OSes the package is intended to be compatible with.

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Thanks for the link.

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Merged, I'll publish on supermarket soon.

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