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Winows: installation per-machine over per-user #498

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saroad2 opened this issue Sep 30, 2020 · 4 comments · Fixed by #520
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Winows: installation per-machine over per-user #498

saroad2 opened this issue Sep 30, 2020 · 4 comments · Fixed by #520
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saroad2 commented Sep 30, 2020

At the moment, when packaging an MSI using Briefcase, the installation is per-user. I need to have the ability to make the installation per-machine.

Right now, the program is currently installed in the %appdata% folder - which is a per-user folder. the env variable translates into something that includes the username in it, and because we are deploying to "fresh" installs - no users have logged in yet. I want to be able to install the program regardless of whether the user that is going to use the program is logged in or not - so in the very least, the program needs to be installed in the "program files" folder.
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Agreed this is something we should support; #382 has some related discussion.

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saroad2 commented Oct 25, 2020

In order to solve this issue, beeware/briefcase-windows-msi-template#6 first needs to be merged. Let me know if you need any help explaining the change.

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saroad2 commented Oct 30, 2020

Also requires beeware/briefcase-windows-msi-template#8

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https://github.com/avast/pe_tools might help - does require python >= 3.6

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Support defining an msi installer scope as "per machine" saroad2/briefcase
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