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“Zero Install is one of the more promising alternatives to
native package systems for Linux distributions, such as RPM and
Debian’s dpkg. Originally developed by Thomas Leonard, who works in
the Department of Electronics and Computing at the University of
Southampton, it begins with a criticism of existing package systems
the difficulties of using them, and is built to provide an answer
to the problems raised by the critique. However, like other
alternative package systems, it faces the problems of winning
acceptance from the major distributions and fine-tuning its
features.“Zero Install is an offshoot of the ROX Desktop project. Leonard
says users were reluctant to try ROX unless it was packaged for
their distro, but packaging took time away from development…”
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