The Zero Install Injector makes it possible for
users to install software easily and without the
need for root privileges. It takes the URL of a
program’s interface description 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.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Changes:
Downloading should now be less CPU-intensive. A
distribution is no longer assumed to be RPM-based
just because /var/lib/rpm exists. When considering
Debian distribution packages, the architecture is
now considered: for example, a 64-bit Debian
library cannot be used with a 32-bit main
executable. Some progress has been made towards
supporting Windows.