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Using Bazaar on Windows without Admin privileges

Asked by Kebap

Hi, I would like to use Bazaar on Windows, but I can't use the installer, because it needs admin privileges. There is one other question answered here on how to use a portable Bazaar on a usb-stick, and it sounds like a good answer to my problem, but to use it, i need to install portableapps first, and this also needs admin status. I would just like to use Bazaar as a regular user, without having to install anything. Isn't that somehow possible? Many other apps have this kind of stand-alone way where you just download and unzip the files and can start using them right away. Maybe some advanced functionality will then be missing, but that would still be way better than having no functionality at all.

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John A Meinel (jameinel) said : 		#1

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Kebap wrote:
> New question #116456 on Bazaar:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/bzr/+question/116456
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> Hi, I would like to use Bazaar on Windows, but I can't use the installer, because it needs admin privileges. There is one other question answered here on how to use a portable Bazaar on a usb-stick, and it sounds like a good answer to my problem, but to use it, i need to install portableapps first, and this also needs admin status. I would just like to use Bazaar as a regular user, without having to install anything. Isn't that somehow possible? Many other apps have this kind of stand-alone way where you just download and unzip the files and can start using them right away. Maybe some advanced functionality will then be missing, but that would still be way better than having no functionality at all.
>

It is possible. Occasionally we post "non-admin" versions of the code,
which is just a self-extracting executable. (like a .zip file). Probably
the most recent one is still pretty old, though.

Anyway, if you can get ahold of one from https://launchpad.net/bzr/+download

You should be able to extract it and put it wherever you want, and then
run it from there.

John
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Best John A Meinel (jameinel) said : 		#2

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Kebap wrote:
> New question #116456 on Bazaar:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/bzr/+question/116456
>
> Hi, I would like to use Bazaar on Windows, but I can't use the installer, because it needs admin privileges. There is one other question answered here on how to use a portable Bazaar on a usb-stick, and it sounds like a good answer to my problem, but to use it, i need to install portableapps first, and this also needs admin status. I would just like to use Bazaar as a regular user, without having to install anything. Isn't that somehow possible? Many other apps have this kind of stand-alone way where you just download and unzip the files and can start using them right away. Maybe some advanced functionality will then be missing, but that would still be way better than having no functionality at all.
>

For example:
https://edge.launchpad.net/bzr/+download?start=10

has

http://edge.launchpad.net/bzr/2.0/2.0.0/+download/bzr-2.0.0-1-nonadmin.exe

We should probably put together an updated one for 2.1 at least.

John
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Kebap (leckerkebap) said : 		#3

Thanks John A Meinel, that solved my question.