Olive 1.5.2: problem with installation on Windows

thomas-maeder commented 2 years ago

grafik

FWIW: Olive 1.3 could be installed on the same Windows machine.

dturevski commented 2 years ago

Did it ask for the elevated access? Does running it as administrator fixes it? This is clearly the windows security issue.

thomas-maeder commented 2 years ago

No, it didn't ask for elevated access.

The Windows user doesn't have Administrator rights.

dturevski commented 2 years ago

No, it didn't ask for elevated access.

Normally it should have, as it's about to write to the "Program Files" folder... Technically, if you don't have the admin access you should not install the software system-wide. It's kind of correct behaviour. So we have two options:

fix: drop the system-wide installation, make the installer install per user (I'll think of it, but I don't promise this will come soon)

workaround 1: install the python3 & git for windows (comes with mingw make) locally, that is per user, and then try

git clone https://github.com/dturevski/olive-gui.git
cd olive-gui
make dependencies
make resources.py
python3 olive.py

workaround 2: get the admin access

thomas-maeder commented 2 years ago

The Windows box isn't mine - I'm asking for a friend. And it's controlled by his employer.

But workaround 1 might be the way to go.

NB: thanks!

dturevski commented 2 years ago

No problem, note, you dont' run git/make from cmd/PowerShell, you should run it from the git-bash (also comes with the git for windows)

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