Re: Permissions to install packages for non-admin users

Ulrike Fischer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.miktex
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am Sat, 7 Feb 2015 13:19:25 -0600 schrieb Paul Johnson:

> I installed miktek in my lab for assistants to use. We keep hitting snags
> because users are not administrators. I constantly have to run in and
> install packages. Can there be a fix for this? Either do like R so nonadmin
> users have easy avenues to install in private space or create way for me to
> allow all users to have packages downloaded without admin account.

As far as I know it should work out-of-the-box. The users only
should use the "normal" (user) package manager instead of the admin
version.


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


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