The Zero Install system

The Zero Install system

~~ The Zero Install system aims to provide a better way of installing software than traditional systems (tarballs, apt-get, bundles, setup.exe, etc). Here are some of our goals:

• Anyone can install software
  You don't have to be root just to install a word-processor.
• Anyone can distribute software
  You don't need to be blessed by a distribution (or anyone else) to be part of Zero Install.
• It doesn't matter whether software is installed or not
  You just run it. Zero Install handles the rest (downloading and caching as needed).
• Downloads are shared
  If one user installs a 20 Mb application, another user can run it without downloading it again.
• Users don't need to trust each other
  If one user downloads a malicious program, other users aren't affected.

Home page

http://0install.net/injector.html