Zero Install

Zero Install: Featured Applications

To get these programs, drag the program's title from your web-browser to your installer. If you need more help, consult the installation instructions.

1. Popular applications
2. 0install tools
3. More feeds

Popular applications

	Mozilla Firefox Web Browser	The award-winning Firefox Web browser has security, speed and new features that will change the way you use the Web. Don't settle for anything less. Home page
	ClanBomber Blow away your opponents	The goal of clanbomber is to blow away your opponents using bombs, but avoid being blown up yourself. Home page
	ROX-Filer fast and powerful file manager	ROX-Filer is a fast and powerful graphical file manager. It has full drag-and- drop support and background file operations, and is highly configurable. It can also act as a pinboard, allowing you to pin frequently used files to the desktop background. Home page
	Blender a versatile 3D animation creation suite	Blender is a fully integrated 3D animation suite for use in animation, still graphics, scientific and engineering visualization, and game content creation. It includes tools for modeling, texturing (node based materials or uv mapped), uv mapping, ... Home page
	OpenTTD Open Source clone of Transport Tycoon Deluxe	OpenTTD is an open source clone of the Microprose game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe", a popular game originally written by Chris Sawyer. It attempts to mimic the original game as closely as possible while extending it with new features. Home page
	GCompris Full featured educational application for children from 2 to 10	Full featured educational application for children from 2 to 10 Home page
	solfege free ear training software	Solfege is a free ear training program written in python using gtk+ and PyGTK. Solfege is expected to work on any OS where python, gtk+ and pygtk are ported, but some adjustments might be necessary. Home page

0install tools

These programs are related to 0install itself (e.g. tools for making and updating feeds). They are, of course, distributed through 0install:

	0compile create a binary release from source code	0compile creates a binary from source code, either for your own use or ready for publishing on the web through Zero Install. It can use Zero Install to download any build dependencies (compilers, header files, build tools, etc). This is useful if ... Home page
	0publish utility to make creating injector interfaces easier	0publish makes creating and modifying injector interface files easier. It can create a new commented template for you or edit an existing one. Various editing operations are available, the most basic being to let you edit it in your preferred text ... Home page
	0publish-gui GTK editor for Zero Install feeds	Publishing a program using Zero Install requires you to create an XML file listing the available versions, where to get them, and what other software they depend on. This program provides a simple graphical interface for creating and editing these feeds. Home page
	0release manage new releases with Zero Install	If you have a local feed in the development version of your program, 0release can help you to create new releases easily. Home page
	FeedLint check your Zero Install feeds	FeedLint is a tool for Zero Install feed authors. It checks that your Zero Install feed can be downloaded, that it is valid and that all the links in it still work. Run this on all your feeds from time-to-time to make sure they still work. Home page
	Make-headers creates -dev packages	Given a standard autoconf source package (in $SRCDIR), this script builds it (configure --prefix=$DISTDIR && make install) and then removes files which shouldn't be in a -dev package (.so and .la files, etc). It also edits any pkg-config .pc files to ... Home page
	ZeroInstall-Injector decentralised installation system	Zero Install is a cross-platform, decentralised installation system. Instead of having a central repository in which all software is placed under a naming scheme managed by some central authority, programs and libraries in Zero Install are identified ... Home page
	0test test Zero Install programs	Use 0test to run the unit tests for a Zero Install program. You can use this to test released versions or developer snapshots. You can give a selection of versions to test, and you can test against different versions of dependencies to create a matrix ... Home page
	pkg2zero create Zero Install feeds from Debian and RPM packages	Zero Install is a decentralised installation system. Meta-data about each package is published in a "feed" file. The Zero Install client reads these feeds files and downloads and runs the programs. The feed files can be created manually (e.g. using ... Home page
	0export create self-installing bundles for distribution on CD	However, it is sometimes useful to bundle a program and its libraries together on a CD (for example) so that it can be used on machines without a network connection, or where the network is very slow. It is also useful for archival purposes, in case ... Home page

More feeds

This pages used to list all the known feeds, but the list was getting much too long, so now it just shows a few selected applications. Other sites provide specialised lists for particular groups of people:

All known feeds

The mirror site contains a list of all feeds known to us.

ROX Zero Install software index

Programs which are designed for use with the ROX desktop.

If you want to make additional programs available this way, please read the packaging guide.