Spambayes needs admin privileges to install
Hello list, Some of you know that I'm a Linux user, but at work I'm forced to use MS Outlook 2007. When I try to install with the exe, I get the message "You must be logged in as an administrator when installing this program." Strange, because strictly speaking spambayes is a user tool, not a system tool. It shouldn't need elevated privileges. How can I manually install Spambayes? I also downloaded the zip file, but it isn't obvious for me what I should do next. I searched the archives, but I didn't find anything interesting or helpful. Kind regards, Amedee
Amedee> Strange, because strictly speaking spambayes is a user tool, not Amedee> a system tool. It shouldn't need elevated privileges. Can't help there. Amedee> How can I manually install Spambayes? I also downloaded the zip Amedee> file, but it isn't obvious for me what I should do next. Probably unzip it, install Python then run pythonn setup.py install Why didn't you just download the installer and run it? Do you have a strong need for a source-based install on Windows? Skip
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Amedee> Strange, because strictly speaking spambayes is a user tool, not Amedee> a system tool. It shouldn't need elevated privileges.
Can't help there.
Amedee> How can I manually install Spambayes? I also downloaded the zip Amedee> file, but it isn't obvious for me what I should do next.
Probably unzip it, install Python then run
pythonn setup.py install
I will try that. I just hope that the Python installer doesn't need admin privs either... *g*
Why didn't you just download the installer and run it? Do you have a strong need for a source-based install on Windows?
But I just explained! The installer needs administrative privileges to run! Perhaps you didn't notice the mail subject? ;-) Kind regards, Amedee
> But I just explained! The installer needs administrative privileges to > run! Perhaps you didn't notice the mail subject? ;-) Read the subject carefully. It's vague in what it refers to. It can just as easily be interpreted as "installing spambayes [from source] requires admin privileges" as "installing spambayes [using the binary installer] requires admin privileges" Your note seemed mostly about installing from a zip archive so I interpreted the subject as somehow needing admin privileges to install from source. Skip
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