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Yes, its possible to install a custom application from an alternate source than app exchange.

Following are different options:

1. Packages:

• Developers can distribute links of their managed or unmanaged packages (custom apps), without publishing them to appexchange. Using this links admins can the application in any Developer/Sandbox/Production orgs.

2. Using source code with any deployment tool:

• Apart from packages, developer can share their source code/SRC file which can be deployed to any org with help of Force.com IDE, Workbench or ANT deployment tool.

3. Deploy to Salesforce button:

• Deploy to Salesforce button in GitHub is also quite popular.

Yes, its possible to install a custom application from an alternate source than app exchange.

Following are different options:

1. Packages:

• Developers can distribute links of their managed or unmanaged packages (custom apps), without publishing them to appexchange. Using this links admins can install the application in any Developer/Sandbox/Production orgs.

2. Using source code with any deployment tool:

• Apart from packages, developer can share their source code/SRC file which can be deployed to any org with help of Force.com IDE, Workbench or ANT deployment tool.

3. Deploy to Salesforce button:

• Deploy to Salesforce button in GitHub is also quite popular.

Yes its possible to install a custom application from alternate source than app exchange.

Following are different options:

1. Packages:

• Developers can distribute link of their managed or unmanaged packages (custom apps), without publishing them to appexchange. These links can be installed in any org.

2. Using source code with any deployment tool:

• Apart from packages, developer can share their source code's src file which can be deployed to any org with Force.com IDE, Workbench or ANT deployment tool.

3. Deploy to Salesforce button:

• Developers also use the deploy to Salesforce button in GitHub or Heroku app.

Yes, its possible to install a custom application from an alternate source than app exchange.

Following are different options:

1. Packages:

• Developers can distribute links of their managed or unmanaged packages (custom apps), without publishing them to appexchange. Using this links admins can the application in any Developer/Sandbox/Production orgs.

2. Using source code with any deployment tool:

• Apart from packages, developer can share their source code/SRC file which can be deployed to any org with help of Force.com IDE, Workbench or ANT deployment tool.

3. Deploy to Salesforce button:

• Deploy to Salesforce button in GitHub is also quite popular.

Yes its possible to install a custom application from alternate source than app exchange.

1. Packages:

• Developers can distribute link of their managed or unmanaged packages (custom apps), without publishing them to appexchange. These links can be installed in any org.

2. Using source code with any deployment tool:

• Apart from packages, developer can share their source code's src file which can be deployed to any org with Force.com IDE, Workbench or ANT deployment tool.

3. Deploy to Salesforce button:

• Developers also use the deploy to Salesforce button in GitHub or Heroku app.

Yes its possible to install a custom application from alternate source than app exchange.

Following are different options:

1. Packages:

• Developers can distribute link of their managed or unmanaged packages (custom apps), without publishing them to appexchange. These links can be installed in any org.

2. Using source code with any deployment tool:

• Apart from packages, developer can share their source code's src file which can be deployed to any org with Force.com IDE, Workbench or ANT deployment tool.

3. Deploy to Salesforce button:

• Developers also use the deploy to Salesforce button in GitHub or Heroku app.