Admin privs to install?

Admin privs to install?

[Adam Shostack]

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Hi,

Congratulations on shipping v2!  

When I went to install it on my mac, I was prompted for the admin password. 
 This wasn't previously a requirement, and it would be better to install as 
a normal user.  

Is there an explanation anywhere of why Pandoc needs admin rights?

Adam

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Re: Admin privs to install?

[Ivan Lazar Miljenovic]

On 1 November 2017 at 10:56, Adam Shostack <adamshostack23-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Congratulations on shipping v2!
>
> When I went to install it on my mac, I was prompted for the admin password.
> This wasn't previously a requirement, and it would be better to install as a
> normal user.
>
> Is there an explanation anywhere of why Pandoc needs admin rights?

Is it being installed system-wide rather than per-user?

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Re: Admin privs to install?

[John MacFarlane]

I don't think there have been any relevant changes in this.
You were asked to type your admin password by the 1.19.2.1
installer as well.  I think this is just something that
macOS pkg installers require, at least if you're putting the
binary in /usr/local.

In fact, pandoc does not need admin rights.  There are
instructions in http://pandoc.org/installing.html#macos
for unpacking the binaries and documentation from the
pkg container; once you unpack them you can put them
where you like!

+++ Adam Shostack [Oct 31 17 16:56 ]:
>   Hi,
>   Congratulations on shipping v2!
>   When I went to install it on my mac, I was prompted for the admin
>   password.  This wasn't previously a requirement, and it would be better
>   to install as a normal user.
>   Is there an explanation anywhere of why Pandoc needs admin rights?
>   Adam
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Re: Admin privs to install?

[Adam Shostack]

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Thanks!  I think I was a few revs out of date, but the instructions you
point to are what I needed.


On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 8:46 PM, John MacFarlane <jgm-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> I don't think there have been any relevant changes in this.
> You were asked to type your admin password by the 1.19.2.1
> installer as well.  I think this is just something that
> macOS pkg installers require, at least if you're putting the
> binary in /usr/local.
>
> In fact, pandoc does not need admin rights.  There are
> instructions in http://pandoc.org/installing.html#macos
> for unpacking the binaries and documentation from the
> pkg container; once you unpack them you can put them
> where you like!
>
> +++ Adam Shostack [Oct 31 17 16:56 ]:
>
>>   Hi,
>>   Congratulations on shipping v2!
>>   When I went to install it on my mac, I was prompted for the admin
>>   password.  This wasn't previously a requirement, and it would be better
>>   to install as a normal user.
>>   Is there an explanation anywhere of why Pandoc needs admin rights?
>>   Adam
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Re: Admin privs to install?

[Kolen Cheung]

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If you use homebrew, brew install pandoc pandoc-citeproc doesn’t require 
admin right. Or you could try pandoc-extras/pandoc-portable 
<https://github.com/pandoc-extras/pandoc-portable> to put it somewhere and 
add it to your PATH manually (e.g. ~/.local/bin) . 
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