0install: A package manager for the lusers
Posted by hank, Thu Jul 19 15:55:00 UTC 2007
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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July 20, 2007 @ 07:04 PM
Hmm… your repository appears to need a password…
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This server could not verify that you are authorized to access the document requested. Either you supplied the wrong credentials (e.g., bad password), or your browser doesn’t understand how to supply the credentials required.
July 20, 2007 @ 07:07 PM
Ya - sorry about that - the server had a RAID issue yesterday, so its repository is down right now. It’ll be back up in a few days. Sorry for the inconvenience.