Re: Python install failing. Install log is available.
On 5/21/21 8:25 AM, Mats Wichmann wrote: > An install for all users will drop it into someplace different - by > default at the top of the drive, so e.g. C:\Python39. I just did an install of 3.9 on Windows 10. There was an option to install the launcher for all users but no option for installing Python for all users if you go through with the default install options. When I chose to install the launcher for all users, it still installed Python in the my user local AppData... path. In order to select to install for all users, I had to choose custom options during the install. Then I could choose to install for all users, and it let me select a path which defaulted to C:\Program Files\Python39. As well I selected to place Python in the path, which it did. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Python install failing. Install log is available.
On 5/21/21 4:21 AM, jan via Python-list wrote: OK, but 1. should the installer work for administrator + all users or not? 2. if not, should the installer work for me (a non-admin) and install python correctly and successfully for my account if I run it in my account, not the admin? It should, and for many, it does. An ordinary install, not "for all users", defaults to your own AppData\Local\Programs\Python - the pattern you see in your Administrator install. So you don't seem to have installed that one for all users. I don't think you want to do a user-install using the administrator account. If you tell it to add to PATH, I believe it adds to the user variables in this case, so other accounts won't see that. The Python launcher should help with this part of the problem, as Terry said, but only if other users are able to work with things installed in admin's account-local locations. An install for all users will drop it into someplace different - by default at the top of the drive, so e.g. C:\Python39. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Python install failing. Install log is available.
OK, but 1. should the installer work for administrator + all users or not? 2. if not, should the installer work for me (a non-admin) and install python correctly and successfully for my account if I run it in my account, not the admin? thanks jan On 20/05/2021, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 5/20/2021 7:06 AM, jan via Python-list wrote: > >> This time it's simply not installing correctly when run as >> administrator, and not at all when run as non-administrator. >> >> As administrator, it's not installing for other users as I believe it >> should. >> >> It's certainly not adding the python path correctly *for all users* > >> C:\WINDOWS\system32>whoami > ... >> Any thoughts? > > On Windows, use the py launcher to launch python. It was added as the > solution to problems with adding python paths, including problems with > multiple installs and those with removing them. > > > -- > Terry Jan Reedy > > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Python install failing. Install log is available.
On 5/20/2021 7:06 AM, jan via Python-list wrote: This time it's simply not installing correctly when run as administrator, and not at all when run as non-administrator. As administrator, it's not installing for other users as I believe it should. It's certainly not adding the python path correctly *for all users* C:\WINDOWS\system32>whoami ... Any thoughts? On Windows, use the py launcher to launch python. It was added as the solution to problems with adding python paths, including problems with multiple installs and those with removing them. -- Terry Jan Reedy -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Python install failing. Install log is available.
Hi, I've usually had problems installing python, typically pip breaking. This time it's simply not installing correctly when run as administrator, and not at all when run as non-administrator. As administrator, it's not installing for other users as I believe it should. It's certainly not adding the python path correctly *for all users* (install option "add python to environment variables"), from a command console run as admin: C:\WINDOWS\system32>whoami antik\administrator C:\WINDOWS\system32>echo %PATH% C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program Files\dotnet\;C:\Program Files\TortoiseGit\bin;C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\Scripts\;C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\;C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps;C:\Users\Administrator\.dotnet\tools It's there, but from a non-admin console (I work just a normal user): C:\Users\jan>whoami antik\jan C:\Users\jan>echo %path% C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program Files\dotnet\;C:\Program Files\TortoiseGit\bin;C:\Users\jan\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps;C:\Users\jan\AppData\Local\Programs\Git\cmd So no python path added. When install is run as non-administrator it seems to fail outright due to lack of privileges. The install log for this non-admin is available on request (I'd rather not attach it as it contain have sensitive info, but can post it publicly if really wanted. It's 60K). I tried elevating my non-admin account to admin then re-running the python installer, it broke. Trying to reinstall it has now lost all associations with the .py extension. I don't know what's going on. My build depends on python and obviously that's failing now. I've worked around it by downloading and unzipping python embedded, setting the file association and hardcoding file paths, but that's certainly not ideal. Any thoughts? Using python-3.9.5-amd64.exe, OS is win 2016 server eval, fresh install. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
