A method for installing a computer program is provided, which includes: determining at a beginning of an installation procedure of the computer program whether an operating system being executed on the computer systems supports a prerequisite component for installing and executing the computer program by using operating system support information corresponding to the computer program. Based on determining that the prerequisite component is not supported by the operating system, performing: setting up a container comprising the prerequisite component using operating system level virtualization, installing the computer program in the container, and providing information on how to access the computer program being executed on the container.