Re: installation failed to complete for v2.9 on XP SP3

Ulrike Fischer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.miktex
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am Fri, 24 Aug 2012 15:31:05 +0000 (UTC) schrieb Sandra Murphy:

> Thanks, by the way, for such a prompt reply.
> 
>>Hm, "single user" indicates a non-admin user account. In this case I
>>would use another folder. I did install in my user account miktex as
>>single user without problems in J:\miktex2.9. 
> 
> Yes, an alternative.  Even though I am the only user of this machine,
> I do not have admin access.
> 
> You did not remark on the path names containing "/" instead of "\". Is
> that not a problem?  I thought that might explain the "do not exist"
> messages.

As far as I know that shouldn't be a problem, I often see such mixed
pathnames.

> 
>>> mpm.exe: regsvr failed for some reason.
> 
>>There has been in 2010 one bug report and one discussion in the
>>mailing list about regsvr failing. Both suggest that the problem is
>>related to permission rights. 
> 
> If one supposes that "regsvr" has something to do with the registry,
> then permission failures make sense.  But if high permissions are
> needed for a single user download, then the single user mode is not
> that useful.

Well single user mode works fine for me and is *very* useful as I
could install miktex on PC's where I have only restricted user
rights. But when I have restricted rights I avoid to try to install
something in a system folder like C:\Program Files. 

-- 
Ulrike Fischer 
http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/


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