Installing Python 2.6 on Vista

[Fuzzyman]

Hello guys,

Not sure if this is a Windows question or a Python problem...

I'm trying to install Python 2.6 from the msi, on Windows Vista as an
administrative user with UAC on. If I try to install for all users
then I am told I don't have privileges to do that... (No UAC prompt.)

The only other user on the machine is the standard guest account, so
it isn't an issue, I just wondered why this would be?

Michael
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[Guilherme Polo]

Re: Installing Python 2.6 on Vista

On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Fuzzyman <fuzzyman@gmail .comwrote:

Hello guys,
>
Not sure if this is a Windows question or a Python problem...
>
I'm trying to install Python 2.6 from the msi, on Windows Vista as an
administrative user with UAC on. If I try to install for all users
then I am told I don't have privileges to do that... (No UAC prompt.)
>
The only other user on the machine is the standard guest account, so
it isn't an issue, I just wondered why this would be?
>

There is a "Vista note" in http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6/

runas /user:Administra tor "msiexec /i <path>\<file>.m si"

Does that work for you ?

Michael
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[Fuzzyman]

Re: Installing Python 2.6 on Vista

On Nov 9, 6:23 pm, "Guilherme Polo" <ggp...@gmail.c omwrote:

On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Fuzzyman <fuzzy...@gmail .comwrote:

Hello guys,

>

Not sure if this is a Windows question or a Python problem...

>

I'm trying to install Python 2.6 from the msi, on Windows Vista as an
administrative user with UAC on. If I try to install for all users
then I am told I don't have privileges to do that... (No UAC prompt.)

>

The only other user on the machine is the standard guest account, so
it isn't an issue, I just wondered why this would be?

>
There is a "Vista note" inhttp://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6/
>
runas /user:Administra tor "msiexec /i <path>\<file>.m si"

Heh. Well it would, except the administrator user doesn't have a
password (purely a VM) and this is unacceptable for runas. :-)

Michael

>
Does that work for you ?
>

Michael
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[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Martin_v=2E_L=F6wis=22?=]

Re: Installing Python 2.6 on Vista

Heh. Well it would, except the administrator user doesn't have a

password (purely a VM) and this is unacceptable for runas. :-)

There is, unfortunately, no other way to install Python 2.6 on Vista.
So your choices are really:
1. activate the Administrator account
2. disable UAC
3. go back to XP
4. go back to Python 2.5

Regards,
Martin

[Fuzzyman]

Re: Installing Python 2.6 on Vista

On Nov 9, 7:39 pm, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewi s.dewrote:

Heh. Well it would, except the administrator user doesn't have a
password (purely a VM) and this is unacceptable for runas. :-)

>
There is, unfortunately, no other way to install Python 2.6 on Vista.
So your choices are really:
1. activate the Administrator account
2. disable UAC
3. go back to XP
4. go back to Python 2.5
>
Regards,
Martin

It installs fine for 'just me', so no problem. I was just curious as
to why I couldn't install it for all users. Even for a VM I should
probably set an admin password.

Thanks

Michael
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[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Martin_v=2E_L=F6wis=22?=]

Re: Installing Python 2.6 on Vista

It installs fine for 'just me', so no problem.

It installs for 'just me', but it doesn't work. Just try starting
IDLE, or import the socket module.

Regards,
Martin

[Steve Holden]

Re: Installing Python 2.6 on Vista

Fuzzyman wrote:

On Nov 9, 7:39 pm, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewi s.dewrote:

>>Heh. Well it would, except the administrator user doesn't have a
>>password (purely a VM) and this is unacceptable for runas. :-)

>There is, unfortunately, no other way to install Python 2.6 on Vista.
>So your choices are really:
>1. activate the Administrator account
>2. disable UAC
>3. go back to XP
>4. go back to Python 2.5
>>
>Regards,
>Martin

>
It installs fine for 'just me', so no problem. I was just curious as
to why I couldn't install it for all users. Even for a VM I should
probably set an admin password.
>
>

The way I worked this was to run a command window as administrator and
then run the installer from the command line.

regards
Steve
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[Scott David Daniels]

Re: Installing Python 2.6 on Vista

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

>It installs fine for 'just me', so no problem.

>
It installs for 'just me', but it doesn't work. Just try starting
IDLE, or import the socket module.
>
Regards,
Martin

See bug 3296 (and its patch).
If the import produces a warning, Idle's improper use of the
format_warning and show_warning stuff turns the waning into an error.


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