[Tutor] Python installing in root

[Andre Engels]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Lie Ryan <lie.1296 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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>).

Well, whatever it was, the problem has been solved now - a colleague
found that I could get it where I wanted by executing the command as
administrator, with the directory specified on command line. Thanks
for thinking with me!


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André Engels, andreengels at gmail.com