Zero Install Injector
Zero Install allows installing software easily and without the need for root privileges. It takes the URL of a program and chooses suitable versions of the program and all of its dependencies (also identified by URLs) according to the user's policy settings (eg. "stable", "testing", "minimal network use", etc). The chosen versions are downloaded and cached and the program is run, using environment variables to let it find the components.
| Tags | Archiving Packaging Internet Software Distribution Tools Software Distribution |
|---|---|
| Licenses | LGPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX Linux Mac OS X Windows |
| Implementation | Python |
| Translations | English Swedish Spanish |
Recent releases
- 29 Dec 2011 22:18
Release Notes: A progress indicator was added for 0store optimize. Native Java JREs and JDKs are now detected on Windows. Various minor bugs were fixed.
- 16 Oct 2011 16:23
Release Notes: Support for MacPorts was added, so that packages installed this way can be used as dependencies. A number of minor bugs were fixed, including support for detecting multiple versions of a native package (e.g. for multi-arch systems) and batching PackageKit requests to avoid the transaction size limit.
- 18 Sep 2011 18:17
Release Notes: Downloading now uses threads, rather than sub-processes, for greater efficiency. Support was added for NetworkManager 0.9. Command-specific bindings are now supported. When fetching information from the key information service, the HTTPS connection is now properly authenticated. A German translation was added.
- 23 Jul 2011 19:32
Release Notes: If a program needs to run some command (for example, "make") then this can be specified using the new executable-in-var or executable-in-path binding types. A performance problem in the GUI with packages with many dependencies (more than 100) was fixed.
- 25 Jun 2011 19:40
Release Notes: Support for optional dependencies was added. Alternative separators can be used when setting an environment variable to a list of paths. A new "digest" command provides a convenient way to calculate the digest of a directory or archive. Python 2.6 is now the minimum version.
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- Popularity Score
- 479.49
- Vitality Score
- 61.36
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