install quarto (1.11.9) without local admin privilege on windows

[eijoac]

Description

The quarto 1.11.9 installation (quarto-1.11.9-win.msi) still requires admin privilege on Windows 11 even if I choose "Install just for you" (and the default user installation folder). The installation seems to start (i.e., I see the file copying progress bar moving), but it stops in the middle and a window pops up asking for admin privilege (which I don't have for my work computer). Does the installation writes/removes some files to/from a system folder? That would trigger the admin password pop-up window.

[g4lb]

Use quarto-1.11.9-win.zip from the release. It needs no installer. Extract it to a folder you own and add its bin to your user PATH:

Expand-Archive quarto-1.11.9-win.zip "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\quarto"
[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable('Path', [Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable('Path','User') + ";$env:LOCALAPPDATA\quarto\bin", 'User')

[eijoac]

Thanks. I realized that my previous Quarto was installed in a system folder (with our admin's help). The 1.11.9 installer perhaps tried to uninstall the old version so that's why the admin password pop-up window. I had the previous version uninstalled, and the 1.11.9 installer worked well afterwards. Thanks again.