# \[ANN\] RunBinary.jl: easily run binaries from YggDrasil

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**Category:** Package Announcements\
**Created:** [June 19, 2021, 11:26am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-runbinary-jl-easily-run-binaries-from-yggdrasil/63179 "2021-06-19T11:26:45Z")\
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# RunBinary.jl is now a Julia App

The most recent Julia version (1.12) supports so-called “apps”, and now RunBinary.jl can utilize this!

Run:

```julia-auto
import Pkg; Pkg.Apps.add("RunBinary")

```

in Julia 1.12 to install the app, which then should become available from your terminal as:

```julia-auto
runbinary ImageMagick.convert input.png output.jpg
runbinary SQLCipher database.db
runbinary difmap
...

```

for any binary available as a jll (mostly, from the Yggdrasil repo).

One time setup – to easily run any available binary in an ad-hoc way 🤩

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Please report if anything doesn’t work, I’m new to the “julia apps” setup.

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