[Tutor] Python installing in root

[Lie Ryan]

On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 12:00 +0200, tutor-request at python.org wrote:
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> Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:40:42 +0200
> From: "Andre Engels" <andreengels at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Tutor] Python installing in root
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> I am installing Python 2.5 using the Windows installer (running
> Vista). On my private computer this works as it should, but on my work
> computer, it installs in the root directory of C: whatever directory I
> specify it to be installed into. Is this a known problem, and does
> anybody know what to do about it?
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> Andr? Engels, andreengels at gmail.com

I have installed Python 2.5 on Windows Vista (Home Basic) on C:\Program
Files, so clearly this is not a global problem. My guess is that at the
work computer, you don't have write access to the directory you're
installing python to, so the installer defaults to the root C:\ (for
some odd reason, it's quite unusual to have access to root C:\ but not
<insert any other directory here>).