Impossible to install digikam 5.8.0 as low privilege user on MS Windows 10

[cerp at eeos.biz]

Very clevere! Thank you .... I will try and let you know.

Quoting Andrey Goreev <aegoreev at gmail.com>:

> Can't you install digikam on a Windows machine at home or in a  
> virtual machine and then copy the directory from c:\program files of  
> that machine to a USB drive and then bring it to your office and  
> copy digikam to your user directory?
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> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
> -------- Original message --------From: Gilles Caulier  
> <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> Date: 2018-01-24  2:49 AM  (GMT-07:00)  
> To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with  
> the power of open source <digikam-users at kde.org> Subject: Re:  
> Impossible to install digikam 5.8.0 as low privilege user on MS  
> Windows 10
> You can open a file in bugzilla about this topic.
> Gilles Caulier
> 2018-01-24 9:03 GMT+01:00  <cerp at eeos.biz>:
> Dear Gilles,
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> I udnerstand your point. My point would be that, because we are  
> allowed to install in our user set of directories, digikam should  
> offer the option to be installed in those, just like many other  
> programmes, not only rawtherapee. Under Linux, you only install  
> using admin if you do a system wide install, but if you install in  
> the /home of the user, you can still do it.
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> Best,
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> Quoting Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>:
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> Hi,
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> It's fully reproducible here in my offcie with Windows 7 where all
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> computers are centrally managed too.
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> As the installer register the application in Windows registery to be
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> visible in Windows control pannel (uninstall section), you need admin right
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> to install.
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> Also i think it's safe to require admin right to install an application in
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> a centrally managed park of computer. After all, we need this right too
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> under MacOS and Linux (excepted AppImage but's it's a special case).
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> So for me it's a normal install behavior, and the way used by Rawtherapee
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> is wrong.
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> Gilles Caulier
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> 2018-01-23 23:59 GMT+01:00 <cerp at eeos.biz>:
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> Dear all,
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> I cannot install digikam 5.8.0 as low privilege user on MS Windows 10. My
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> laptop is centrally managed, but I can easily install those packages like
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> Rawtherapee that can be installed in the local user directory without
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> privileges.
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> Best,
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> Corrado