Skip to content

If Arduino-IDE is installed for User only, installing additions tries to install them to %PROGRAMFILES% on Windows #2711

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Open
3 tasks done
tps800 opened this issue Apr 15, 2025 · 0 comments
Labels
type: imperfection Perceived defect in any part of project

Comments

@tps800
Copy link

tps800 commented Apr 15, 2025

Describe the problem

If Arduino-IDE is installed for User only, installing additions tries to install them to %PROGRAMFILES% on Windows

To reproduce

Install Arduino-IDE for User-Only, or install Arduino-IDE by unpacking the zip-Version. Then install additional libraries and Boards.

Expected behavior

Libraries and Boards are installed for User-Only, not global for all users. If drivers needed are to install, just copy them into some directory, so an User with admin-rights could install them.

Arduino IDE version

2.3.7

Operating system

Windows

Operating system version

10

Additional context

Version: 2.3.7-nightly-20250410
Date: 2025-04-10T03:24:25.880Z
CLI Version: 1.2.0

With Linux and MacOS this works as it should: Libraries and Boards are installed, drivers are mentioned to be updated or installed in a second step.

Issue checklist

  • I searched for previous reports in the issue tracker
  • I verified the problem still occurs when using the latest nightly build
  • My report contains all necessary details
@tps800 tps800 added the type: imperfection Perceived defect in any part of project label Apr 15, 2025
Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment
Labels
type: imperfection Perceived defect in any part of project
Projects
None yet
Development

No branches or pull requests

1 participant