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missing ghini.lnk #51

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mfrasca opened this issue Feb 10, 2016 · 4 comments
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missing ghini.lnk #51

mfrasca opened this issue Feb 10, 2016 · 4 comments

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mfrasca commented Feb 10, 2016

I had removed the bauble.lnk file because it had hard coded paths in it and I forgot to open an issue related to the automatic generation of the corresponding Ghini file. now a new potential user mentions:

I did the installation of ghini.desktop in my linux box and it works well. However I was not able to install it on Windows - giving an an error message linked to the missing ghini.lnk file in the script directory
error: file 'C:\Users\USERNAME\Local\github\Ghini\ghini.desktop\scripts\ghini.lnk' does not exist
I would like to recommend to use the software in the K. University botanical garden, but would be much convenient to have it running on Windows.

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RoDuth commented Feb 11, 2016

I had one of my staff say that they would like a database for their home collection yesterday. I said I have just the thing for you, bring your laptop in tomorrow and I'll install it for you.... Well I got all the way through the install on his Windows 10 setup... until the last bit that requires the ghini.lnk file!

Shouldn't I be able to run it from the command line anyway? I can't seem to work out how and I'm worried there may be something else wrong with the install that I missed.

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mfrasca commented Feb 11, 2016

you can generate the ˙lnk˙ file easily from the gui. just a shortcut to the vbs script. then set the icon for it and re-run the last failing bit.
I don't know how to do this from a batch script.

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mfrasca commented Feb 13, 2016

we can do this from Python, using pypiwin32 (should check the name). it would be a small script, like 10 lines. makes one wonder whether to drop the batch file entirely and do all from Python.

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mfrasca commented Feb 14, 2016

sorry it took such a long time. I am back to Europe, and obviously the first thing I did here was to get sick.
I have tested it and it works as advertised.

  • download the devinstall.bat file
  • run it
  • run the devinstall-finalize.bat as administrator
  • enjoy ghini from the windows menu

(please reopen if it does not work for you.)

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