gephi/trunk — Issue #142: Windows installer should not require admin privileges
Author: mbastian
Created: 2011-10-22 16:43:08+00:00
State: open
Labels: Fix Released, installation, Medium, windowsxp

Problem: the windows installer requires admin privileges to run. A lot of users on corporate or university workstations don't have such privileges.
Installer: http://launchpad.net/gephi/0.7/0.7beta/+download/gephi-0.7-beta.setup.exe
OS: Windows XP Professional sp3
Severity: annoyance or unusable, depending on your point of view

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1) Download http://launchpad.net/gephi/0.7/0.7beta/+download/gephi-0.7-beta.setup.exe
2) Attempt to run it as a user that does not have admin privileges

Behaviour:
- Installer terminates with the error message "You must be logged in as an administrator when installing this program".

Expected behaviour:
- No error (I have write access to *some* folders on the computer - why not let me install there?)

Current workaround: compile from source