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Windows Installer Requires Admin Rights #3108

Closed rtoy closed 5 months ago

rtoy commented 5 months ago

Imported from SourceForge on 2024-07-07 13:45:19 Created by *anonymous on 2008-09-04 03:13:10 Original: https://sourceforge.net/p/maxima/bugs/1493

The current maxima-5.16.3.exe windows installer requires machine Admin privileges to run.

I don't think there is anything about the install that requires Admin privileges. This bug was probably introduced by a change in Inno Setup's default behavior in version 5.1.9 (released 2006-12-10). See http://www.innosetup.com/files/is5-whatsnew.htm.

Indeed maxima windows installers from before this date work just fine without Admin privleges.

The simple fix seems to be to add the line "PrivilegesRequired=none" to the [Setup] section of maxima.iss.in.

rtoy commented 5 months ago

Imported from SourceForge on 2024-07-07 13:45:20 Created by robert_dodier on 2008-09-06 16:05:24 Original: https://sourceforge.net/p/maxima/bugs/1493/#ae11

Logged In: YES user_id=501686 Originator: NO

Applied suggested change in r1.33 maxima.iss.in. Closing this report as fixed.

I don't have a Windows build environment, so I can't test this change. Hope I'm not too optimistic here.

rtoy commented 5 months ago

Imported from SourceForge on 2024-07-07 13:45:24 Created by robert_dodier on 2008-09-06 16:05:24 Original: https://sourceforge.net/p/maxima/bugs/1493/#12a2