Installation on a computer without admin privileges

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Corbeau
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Installation on a computer without admin privileges

#1 Post by Corbeau »

Hello. I'm trying to install FreeOrion on a computer that I use for work (Windows). The problem, as the title says, is that I don't have admin privileges and they are required if the installation is "making changes on the computer". Is there a way to circumvent this? Similar thing happens when I install Freeciv, but for some reason the installation there goes smoothly without admin rights.

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#2 Post by Ophiuchus »

Cant really comment on directly running in windows without admin rights part.

If you are really pain resistant and have linux knowledge: maybe freeorion also builds for cygwin(?). It is possible to install cygwin without admin rights as far as I know.
For all other "run-linux-on-windows" variants you probably need some admin rights (virtualisation software to run a virtual machine or the linux subsystem (WSL) in windows 10).
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Re: Installation on a computer without admin privileges

#3 Post by o01eg »

I suppose it is managed somewhere in https://github.com/freeorion/freeorion/ ... ler.nsi.in but I never work with NSIS so not sure what should be changed.

Maybe Vezzra knows it better.
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I suppose it should work from .zip archive. It only requires executables and default folder in the same directory.
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Re: Installation on a computer without admin privileges

#5 Post by Corbeau »

o01eg wrote: Mon Feb 15, 2021 2:52 pm I suppose it should work from .zip archive. It only requires executables and default folder in the same directory.
Zip archive?

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Corbeau wrote: Mon Feb 15, 2021 3:32 pm
o01eg wrote: Mon Feb 15, 2021 2:52 pm I suppose it should work from .zip archive. It only requires executables and default folder in the same directory.
Zip archive?
I think you can try installing in a Windows machine you own, compress the folder, and uncompress it in the machine you don't own.

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#7 Post by Geoff the Medio »

You can also download the .exe installer, open it in a program like 7-Zip as if it was a .zip, unzip to a directory on the desktop, and then run FreeOrion.exe from there. No actual installation is required, and it doesn't need to be in any special location to run.

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#8 Post by Vezzra »

o01eg wrote: Mon Feb 15, 2021 2:46 pmMaybe Vezzra knows it better.
Not really. One thing you can try is installing into a location somewhere in your user home directory (instead into the default programs folder). You don't need local admin rights to write there, so that might work...

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