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Flatpak and AppImage.

Or download & compile & install to a PREFIX (e.g. ~/.local/pkg/), and use a symlink-manager to install to e.g. ~/local (and set MANPATH accordingly, too). Make sure PATH contains ~/.local/bin, etc. It does not work with Electron apps though. I do "alias foo="cd ... && ./foo".



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