# Zero Install

Zero Install is a package manager that allows a single software package to run on many operating systems and distributions without repackaging for each platform. According to its website Zero Install "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" A Zero Install package can be ran as a normal user without installing it on your system.

## Installation

Zero Install can be found in the Arch User Repository as package zeroinstall-injector.

Documentation on how to install ZeroInstall from source is avalable at http://zero-install.sourceforge.net/install-source.html The instructions there work perfectly.

## Usage

Zero Install can be used through the `0install` command.The `0launch` command is used in program installation.

### Adding Software

To add Zero Install software run

    0launch url

where url is the url of the zero-install feed. A list of Zero Install packages can be found at http://zero-install.sourceforge.net/injector-feeds.html

## See Also

Zero Install Website

Zero Install on Wikipedia

Category:

- Package management