It is problematic in various ways. There may be some way to achieve this in the windows installer, but I need to investigate this. I don't know about the macos installer.
On linux, I don't know how this should be done if we want to provide normal packages for this. I think it would be better if we integrate a better downloaded (AND UPDATER) kicad to handle this. Alternatively it could be a user script, for example a python script which we should be able to make quite portable, also given that we are sort of sure we have the python env for a proper kicad installation. 2017-11-08 8:02 GMT+01:00 Oliver Walters <[email protected]>: > To the package maintainers: > > For v5 release, can the default library install path be set to a user > directory rather than program directory that may require administrator > rights? > > e.g. instead of > > C:\Program Files\KiCad\share\... > or > /usr/share/kicad/... > > something like; > > C:\Users\Oliver\KiCad\... > > /home/Oliver/KiCad > > (Not necessarily those paths but something like that). > > A lot of users are reporting issues with being able to download or modify > library files, due to user privileges. > > How attainable is such a change before v5 release? > > Thanks, > Oliver > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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