Henry,
This is what the AIO install says:
https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/System/Installation/J901/AIO
You will be asked to choose between an installation for all users or 'just for
me'.
Installing 'just for me' produces an unshared installation (by default to your
user directory C:\Users\Fred) and does not require admin privilege, either
during installation or during later upgrades.
A shared installation (by default to C:\Program Files) requires admin privilege,
both for the initial installation and for subsequent upgrade to addons. That is,
you will have to Run as Administrator any time you want to upgrade J packages if
you install into a shared directory.
David Mitchell
On 5/3/2020 12:17, Henry Rich wrote:
I point the users to the installation page. Can you give me a sentence to add
to my instructions so they won't encounter this problem?
Henry Rich
On 5/3/2020 12:15 PM, Norman Drinkwater wrote:
If they are an administrator on the computer, they can use the all-in-one
installer to install for all users. Then J runs with admin rights and
pacman will work fine. If they aren't an administrator, they can only
install as a user. The current behavior conforms to windows guidelines,
though I understand that it's inconvenient.
On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 10:33 AM Henry Rich <[email protected]> wrote:
I have a J application, distributed as a Addon. When it starts, it runs
Pacman to check for updates.
A couple of users report that the catalog is read-only and thus they
can't run Pacman without administrative rights. As they are Windows
users, this means that they have to Run as Administrator. This is
undesirable.
Does anyone know what causes this state of affairs? Is it something in
the way they installed J, or how they have their Windows system set up?
I don't think it's an antivirus issue.
And is there a workaround for them to give J the rights to manage its
stuff?
Henry Rich
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