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Python installation to folder. No admin rights - Toug19 - Sep-19-2019
Hi,
I succeeded once to make an installation of Python 2.7.16 to a folder. It's now a full usable python with all modules and add-on (such as pip and pyinstaller) functionnals.
The problem is that I can't remember how exactly I did it.
I think that I made the installation with msiexec in a dos console (cmd).
Maybe:
Quote:msiexec /a python-2.7.10.msi /qb TARGETDIR=C:\Users\sdasilva\Documents\test_install
The installation seems to start, but after few seconds, an error window appears saying that the file Readme.txt is missing:
"Source file not found: C:\Users\sdasilva\Documents\README.txt. Verify that the file exists and that you can access it."
That's weird.
Maybe the options passed to msiexec were different.
Somebody to help me?
RE: Python installation to folder. No admin rights - metulburr - Sep-19-2019
1) Why are you using python 2.x? It is the end of its life.
2) Why dont you set the install directory within the installer?
RE: Python installation to folder. No admin rights - Toug19 - Sep-19-2019
(Sep-19-2019, 11:23 AM)metulburr Wrote: 1) Why are you using python 2.x? It is the end of its life.
2) Why dont you set the install directory within the installer?
1: Because avionics and aeronautics love old things. And i'm not up to date too.
2: Tried with
"msiexec /a python-2.7.16.amd64.msi /qb"
the error didn't occurred, but I don't know where the files were copied to. Not in the current folder.
I managed to workaround the problem by using python 2.7.15 instead of 2.7.16 (my first post was saying 2.7.10, but it was 2.7.16). But I hope i will not have different behaviour.
RE: Python installation to folder. No admin rights - DeaD_EyE - Sep-19-2019
This works on Linux:
msiexec /i python-2.7.16.amd64.msi TARGETDIR="C:\myfolder" /qbHere the full text from console:
andre@andre-GP70-2PE:~/Downloads$ msiexec /i python-2.7.16.amd64.msi TARGETDIR="C:\myfolder" /qb andre@andre-GP70-2PE:~/Downloads$ ls ../.win .wine/ .winff/ .winswitch/ andre@andre-GP70-2PE:~/Downloads$ ls ../.win .wine/ .winff/ .winswitch/ andre@andre-GP70-2PE:~/Downloads$ ls ../.wine/drive_c/myfolder/ DLLs include libs Microsoft.VC90.CRT.manifest NEWS.txt python.exe README.txt tcl Doc Lib LICENSE.txt msvcr90.dll python27.dll pythonw.exe Scripts Tools andre@andre-GP70-2PE:~/Downloads$ wine ../.wine/drive_c/myfolder/python.exe Python 2.7.16 (v2.7.16:413a49145e, Mar 4 2019, 01:37:19) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>>I found the answer here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8839978/install-msi-with-msiexec-in-a-specific-directory