title: What’s the best way to distribute a binary application for Linux?
body: <p>I just finished porting an application from Windows into Linux.<br>
  I have to create an installer of the application.<br>
  The application is <strong>not</strong> open source => I should distribute the application's binaries (executable file, couple .so files, help files and images).</p>
  
  <p>I found several methods to do it:<br>
  - <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1279423/distributing-binary-applications-across-linux-distros">RPM and DEB packages</a>;<br>
  - <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/955460/how-do-linux-binary-installers-bin-sh-work">installer in .sh files</a>;<br>
  - <a href="http://autopackage.org/" rel="noreferrer">Autopackage</a>.</p>
  
  <p>I don't like first method (RPM and DEB packages) because I don't want to mantain different packages for different Linux distros.  </p>
  
  <p>What is the <strong>best way</strong> to distribute a binary application for Linux?</p>