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Visual Studio build tools/vs_buildtools/vs and other software not installed issues #141

Open de-served opened 3 months ago

de-served commented 3 months ago

Many of us here are prorgammers/IT's that have VS installed. And some of us installs software not to default directories. Me too.

Press here to show a spoiler All of my Dev software are totally out of system drive because it is not system critical. So my system drive contains only software that needs to run system, fix if needed, debug. But other like development, multimedia (adobe/davinci/fl studio etc etc etc) are at other drive that can be even disabled and not needed at critical backups. So when Pinokio says that I didn't have conda, git, zip, python, visual studio - it's confusing enough. And annoying when installing anything because all of this eats enough space, duplicating all of already installed software and so on. I'm forced to uninstall my miniconda and VS 2019 build tools just to install any package by Pinokio and understand that it is not looking for installed software in a good way. It searches only at default directories ignoring registry/path/command returns and so on. I returned my VS 2019 back to where it must be (I was not happy to remove and then reinstall 12 Gb of VS 2019 components just to test it...).

Started Pinokio, clicked at any software at dashboard, pressed Download and see that all must be installed except py and registry (???). Then I pressed install, failed at last step when vs_buildtools installs - because installator tells that there is no need to install but Pinokio installer script didn't understand such answer. Then I started Process Monitor, filtered for Pinokio process, NOT FOUND Result and Path that includes "BuildTools". Started monitoring, pressed Download in Pinokio and when "Installation Required" appeared (see screenshot) I disabled monitoring. What I've seen there? Pinokio searches for default paths as I expected. My next step was to create links in "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\" - 2019 and 2022 for my "Drive:\Dev\VisualStudio\2019" and "...\2022" real directories. Then I restarted Download in Pinokio and... it didn't showed me "Installation required" message but "Save as: ... Download" message - telling that all is ok.

So the problem is that Pinokio didn't search correct paths for installed software, only defaults "happy paths".

Next I'll try to make links for my existing conda, git and maybe python (not sure about python because of conda...)

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westNeighbor commented 3 months ago

same here, I was excited to try, but when I saw this message of installation requirements, I just deleted pinokio. I already have vs, python, git, zip, nodejs, ffmpeg installed, I don't use conda instead of pip and winget to fullly control all the installations, The pinokio way of trying to install everything is scary and lost my interests to try it.

de-served commented 3 months ago

I don't use conda instead of pip and winget to fullly control all the installations

Same way was before pinokio. I had 2.7, 3.10, 3.11 & 3.12 pythons. But after issues with pinokio installed miniconda, got into problems, uninstalled all pythons, reinstalled miniconda other way, digged in it deeper, got a ton of problems with venvs etc. Only because of pinokio. Now I'm on a way to trash it all and revert back to original pythons installations. Pinokio can be moved to bloatware because all of that.