a Windows installation problem as user plus two questions...

Shun-ichi GOTO shunichi.goto at gmail.com
Sun Mar 11 01:13:03 UTC 2007


2007/3/10, Stefano Spinucci <virgo977virgo at gmail.com>:
> I'm on windows 2000 (as user w/o admin privileges), I have downloaded
> the last packag for windows and trying to install I got the error "You
> must be logged in as an administrator when installing this program".

I think it is issue 449.
http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/bts/issue449

> Some questions:
>
> (1)
> there is a way to install/unpack the package on my work machine (NO
> admin privileges)???
> I thought to do an installation on my home machine, and "move" the
> installation dir to my work machine...

You can extrac files by using:
  innounp, the Inno Setup Unpacker
  http://innounp.sourceforge.net/

Unpack mercurial-0.9.3.exe and move extracted "{app}" directory
as "c:\mercurial". It is almost equivalent.

-- 
Shun-ichi GOTO



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