You need --no-admin option to setup if you don't have administrative privileges, if that's all you're after.
If you are asking how to modify/update your existing installation that was installed as administrator, that might be impossible, if you no longer have privileges there. Regards, David -----Original Message----- From: Cygwin <cygwin-bounces+david=starks-browning....@cygwin.com> On Behalf Of Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan Sent: 14 December 2021 14:10 To: e...@iol.it Cc: The Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin@cygwin.com> Subject: Re: lost of admin right Hi Valerio, Have you tried using the "-B" command line option when running setup-x86_64.exe ? Thank you. On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 9:33 PM Valerio Messina via Cygwin < cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote: > hi, > I have a company PC where I was admin and installed Cygwin in a non > supported path: > D:\Program Files (x86)\cygwin64 > /cygdrive/d/Program Files (x86)/cygwin64 and worked like a sharm for > years, with a quite complex env. > > Now admin right was revoked to me, and the update via setup.exe cannot > proceed. > I can ask to the company admin to update the distribution every time, > but this is impractical. > > 1) Do you know if re-installing to supported path something like: > D:\ProgramFiles\cygwin64 > /cygdrive/d/ProgramFiles/cygwin64 > let me update the distro without admin right? > > I made a backup of the about 800 installed packages with: > $ cygcheck -c -d | cut -d' ' -f1 | tail -n+3 > > installedPackages2021-12.txt I never tryed to restore the backup with: > $ setup -M -P package1,package2, ... > > 2) Someone know if that work well ? > > thank you, > -- > Valerio > > -- > Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > -- Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
