On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Thomas Ibbotson <[email protected]> wrote: > Thomas Ibbotson wrote: >> >> René Dudfield wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Thomas Ibbotson >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> I'm using the pygame-1.9.1.win32-py2.6.msi installer with a fresh >>>> install of >>>> Python2.6. Pygame is not installed correctly, and creates C:\Lib and >>>> C:\Include directories. I can manually move these into my Python26 >>>> folder to >>>> fix this. I don't have an APPDATA environment variable set, perhaps this >>>> is >>>> being assumed to exist and as it is not set it is being installed in >>>> C:\? >>>> >>>> Tom >>>> >>>> >>> >>> hi, >>> >>> which version of windows are you using? >>> >>> Also, which user did you install it under? >>> >>> >>> cheers, >>> >> >> I'm using Windows XP Professional SP3. I tried to install it both under >> 'All Users' and 'Just for me', neither worked. The user account I was using >> was not an administrator account on the system. >> >> It also turns out the APPDATA environment variable is set, I just can't >> see it in the Control Panel->System->Advanced->Environment variables list, >> but it is in the os.environ dictionary in python. >> >> Tom > > Update: I just managed to run the installer as an administrator and the > installation worked correctly. I thought that .msi installers got round the > issue of having to be an administrator to install things? > > Tom >
yeah, it's usually all worked out for me in the past. This is the first I've heard of this problem... we pretty much use the default msi installer builder from python with a couple of extensions... so it should be working ok. Do you remember which user you installed python under? I can't find an msi related bug at bugs.python.org (only looked very quickly). Do you have PYTHONPATH set? Maybe it is set to "" or "C:\" ? cheers,
