0install: Linux

Linux Packages

Arch Linux
Debian / Knoppix / Mint / Ubuntu
Fedora
Gentoo
OpenSUSE
Red Hat
Slackware
Generic binaries

If a package for your distribution is listed above, install that and then try using it! Otherwise, get the source package instead or try the generic binaries.

Arch Linux

The most reliable option is to build from source:

pacman -Sy opam aspcud make m4 patch unzip gcc sed awk grep camlp4
opam init --comp=4.04.1
opam depext -i 0install
eval $(opam config env)
0install --version

The generic binary (see below) also works, but you need the old libcurl:

pacman -Sy wget tar libcurl-compat
wget https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/zero-install/0install/2.12.1/0install-linux-x86_64-2.12.1.tar.bz2
tar xf 0install-linux-x86_64-2.12.1.tar.bz2
cd 0install-linux-x86_64-2.12.1
./install.sh local
LD_PRELOAD=libcurl.so.3 0install --version

Finally, there is also the zeroinstall-injector AUR package.

Debian / Knoppix / Mint / Ubuntu

Zero Install is part of the main Debian archive, so you can get it with:

# apt-get install zeroinstall-injector

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: you may find a newer version works better: the Raring .deb works fine.

On Debian/unstable (since 2014-04-16), there is a "0install-core" package. This doesn't depend on any GUI components, which makes it more suitable for headless servers or small VMs. To install with minimal dependencies:

# apt-get install 0install-core --no-install-recommends

Fedora

Packages are in Fedora (thanks to Michel Alexandre Salim), so just do:

# yum install 0install

for the new OCaml RPM, or:

# yum install zeroinstall-injector

for the older Python RPM .

Gentoo

zeroinstall-injector is in Gentoo (the version, 1.11, is very old though).

OpenSUSE

A package is available from the main repository (since OpenSUSE 12.1):

Package in the OpenSUSE distribution

For older systems:

Red Hat

RHEL 5 RPM (0.35)
RHEL 6 RPM (1.10)

A package is available in the Fedora Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL):

# yum install zeroinstall-injector

Slackware

Slackware packages are available from slackbuilds.org.

Generic binaries

There are some pre-compiled generic binaries available. These work on Linux-x86 (32-bit Linux), Linux-x86_64 (64-bit Linux), and Linux-armv6l (Raspberry Pi with Raspbian).

Download the appropriate archive for your system, unpack it, and run the install.sh script inside. You'll need libcurl installed (most systems have it by default).

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