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Note, post revised in June 2019 to make the tone less ambiguous.
Windows install without admin rights update#
To update or install new packages, double click the shortcut. Rename the shortcut to something more useful, like ‘ Cygwin Setup’ C:\Users\darren\installs\cygwin\setup-x86_64.exe -no-admin.It should say something like:Ĭ:\Users\username\installs\cygwin\setup-x86_64.exe Right click on setup-x86_64.exe - Shortcut, select ‘Properties’ Right click on setup-x86_64.exe, select ‘Make shortcut’ Now, also simple to make a Windows shortcut This installed cygwin to C:\cygwin64įor future use, I created a batch file, cygwin_update.batĪnd all that is in it is: C:\Users\username\installs\cygwin>setup-x86_64.exe -no-adminĪnd I put it in my path. In the command windows, typed: H:\> C:Ĭ:\> cd C:\Users\username\installs\cygwinĬ:\Users\username\installs\cygwin> setup-x86_64.exe -no-admin (B) Created C:\Users\username\installs\cygwin and put it in there (* is just x86 or x86_64, depending on your bits) It’s a waste of their time as well as mine. Even if they will install Cygwin for me (they would, I’m pretty sure - they’re very reasonable people), I don’t want to have to put in a job request every time I want to install a Cygwin package. MikTeX works that way, and so does Cygwin.
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So it’s useful to look at installing things without admin rights. (Actually, that’s probably sound judgement on their part…) ‘Cos, you know, we’re unreliable and might do something crazy. Especially since I have a work-provided computer and the IT people don’t give us members of the proletariat administrator access.