From: "Albrecht Käfer" <albrecht_kaefer@yahoo.de>
Subject: Re: Installing GNAT GPL 2010 on Vista
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 01:55:27 +0200
Date: 2010-06-25T01:55:27+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.vetwqpn9nfgb3u@richard.piraten.dd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 948b133c-b6a1-406b-9d53-9529032c4954@j4g2000yqh.googlegroups.com
On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:24:48 +0200, Alex Mentis <asmentis@gmail.com> wrote:
> Be advised: GNAT GPL 2010 did not install correctly for me on Windows
> Vista with User Account Control turned on. It raised a "cannot modify
> HKLM" error, and it did not install Start menu shortcuts or modify my
> path (so who knows what else it also didn't do...). Manually
> configuring these two items was insufficient to subsequently install
> GtkAda (GtkAda installer did not recognize that GNAT was installed).
>
> Recommendation: turn off User Account Control during the installation
> of GNAT GPL 2010. So far this work-around seems to have fixed the
> problems above.
“Run as administrator�? from the context menu did it for me. Someone (the
word “idiot�? comes to mind) apparently forget that an installer should
request elevation.
Albrecht
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-24 19:24 Installing GNAT GPL 2010 on Vista Alex Mentis
2010-06-24 23:55 ` Albrecht Käfer [this message]
2010-06-25 12:06 ` Alex Mentis
2010-06-25 13:50 ` Albrecht Käfer
2010-06-25 16:07 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-06-27 0:09 ` mahdert
2010-06-27 14:36 ` Peter C. Chapin
2010-06-28 20:24 ` mahdert
2010-06-29 1:03 ` Paul
2010-06-29 4:49 ` Albrecht Käfer
2010-06-29 6:34 ` casp_1986
2010-06-30 16:26 ` Albrecht Käfer
2010-06-25 9:45 ` Mark Lorenzen
2010-06-25 10:36 ` Albrecht Käfer
2010-06-25 13:32 ` Mark Lorenzen
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