Re: Installing GIMP without administrative privileges

Jernej Simončič <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.gimp.windows.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:13:45 -0000, jayshachter wrote:

> I cannot install the software without administrative privileges.
> Is there any way around that?  If not, is this ever going to change?

No. Due to changes introduced by Windows Vista, I can't support
non-administrative installs in the installer anymore. If you want to
install without administrative privileges, copy the installation folder
from another computer.

> I do not have administrative privileges in public libraries.

You probably shouldn't be putting software on the computers there then.

> Are there versions of
> the installation programs in which the gtk+ installation is
> separate from the gimp installation?

Not anymore - there were too many problems with incompatible GTK+ versions.

-- 
< Jernej Simončič >< http://deepthought.ena.si/ >
< Contact address: >< jernej simoncic at isg si >


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