
Installation is always side-effect-free (each package is unpacked to its own directory and will not touch shared directories), making it ideal for use with sandboxing technologies and virtualization. For example, while it will share libraries whenever possible, it can always install multiple versions of a package in parallel when there are conflicting requirements. Zero Install also has some interesting features not often found in traditional package managers. 0install packages never interfere with those provided by the distribution. It is intended to complement, rather than replace, the operating system’s package management. It allows software developers to publish programs directly from their own web-sites, while supporting features familiar from centralized distribution repositories such as shared libraries, automatic updates and digital signatures. Zero Install has not been rated by our users yet.Zero Install is a decentralized cross-platform software-installation system available under the LGPL. Zero Install runs on the following operating systems: Windows. The most prevalent version is 2.25.1, which is used by 67 % of all installations. It was initially added to our database on. The latest version of Zero Install is 2.25.1, released on. It was checked for updates 94 times by the users of our client application UpdateStar during the last month. Zero Install is a Shareware software in the category Miscellaneous developed by. The chosen versions are downloaded and cached and the program is run, using environment variables to let it find the components.

"stable", "testing", "minimal network use", etc). 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.

Zero Install allows installing software easily and without the need for root privileges.
