Isolated software installation

A technology to isolate user software installations is described. A package database of software packages is maintained. A file system for a user account is isolated by setting a root directory of a file system hierarchy in the file system to be a user directory structure for the user account. A sof...

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1. Verfasser: Berg Paul William
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:A technology to isolate user software installations is described. A package database of software packages is maintained. A file system for a user account is isolated by setting a root directory of a file system hierarchy in the file system to be a user directory structure for the user account. A software package is installed from the package database into the user directory structure by linking files from the package database into the user directory structure.