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82 bytes removed , 9 June

mention binfmt option (adapted from old wiki)

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 You can tell the Linux kernel to use an interpreter (e.g. <code>appimage-run</code>) when executing certain binary files through the use of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binfmt_misc#External_links binfmt_misc], either by filename extension or magic number matching. Below NixOS configuration registers AppImage files (ELF files with magic number "AI" + 0x02) to be run with <code>appimage-run</code> as interpreter.
-<syntaxhighlight lang="nix">
+Since [https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/release-notes#sec-release-24.05-new-services NixOS 24.05], there is a binfmt option:
-boot.binfmt.registrations.appimage = {
-  wrapInterpreterInShell = false;
+<syntaxhighlight lang="nixos">
-  interpreter = "${pkgs.appimage-run}/bin/appimage-run";
+programs.appimage.binfmt = true;
-  recognitionType = "magic";
-  offset = 0;
-  mask = ''\xff\xff\xff\xff\x00\x00\x00\x00\xff\xff\xff'';
-  magicOrExtension = ''\x7fELF....AI\x02'';
-};
 </syntaxhighlight>
-This way AppImage files can be invoked directly.
+This way AppImage files can be invoked directly as if they were normal programs
 == How AppImage files are packaged by NixOS ==