Zero Install is a handy and reliable application designed to allow you to easily install software without the need of administrator privileges.
It enables 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.
If you have a web-site, you can distribute your software:
· Create one package that works everywhere
· With dependency handling and automatic updates
· There is no central point of control
Security is central:
· Users don't need administrator access just to install a word-processor
· Digital signatures are always checked before new software is run
· Users share libraries without having to trust each other
· Use of sandboxes and virtualization is routine
You control your own computer:
· You don't have to guess what happens during installation
· Mix and match stable and experimental programs on a single system
You can also try the portable version of the application.
What's New in This Release:
· Fixed crash when environment variable specified in is not set
· Added 0store purge command to delete all entries from an implementation store (doing this manually is difficult because of the NTFS permissions involved)
· Introduced new per-user installer for use without administrator permissions
· A number of minor tweaks and bugfixes