Schadenfreude » zeroinstall http://www.ralree.com Malicious enjoyment derived from observing someone else's misfortune Sat, 21 Jan 2012 20:10:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 0install: A package manager for the lusers http://www.ralree.com/2007/07/19/0install-a-package-manager-for-the-lusers/ http://www.ralree.com/2007/07/19/0install-a-package-manager-for-the-lusers/#comments Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:55:00 +0000 Erik http://www.ralree.info/2007/10/13/0install-a-package-manager-for-the-lusers Zeroinstall is my new friend. It’s a package manager that’s decentralized, and can be used on machines where users need applications, but don’t know how to compile (or are unwilling to). Installing applications happens in the home directory, and once a program is run once, it is stored in the home directory for later use. All packages can be signed with GPG keys, and the packaging GUI is amazingly awesome.

Check out my 0install repository. You can run things like this:


sudo apt-get install zeroinstall-injector
0launch http://modzer0.cs.uaf.edu/repos/hank/0install/Processing.xml

There’s packages for all the popular distributions. Get it now! It’s awesome.

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