[chirp_users] Chirp will not install

[Marc]

100% agree. As I said before by pc issue I was meaning security,
anti-virus, admin privileges etc.

The installer should at least finish. 32 bit or not.

Marc

On Fri, Oct 20, 2023, 5:11 PM Dan Smith via chirp_users <
chirp_users at intrepid.danplanet.com> wrote:

> > No, Marc, it's not necessicarily a PC issue. We don't know yet, because
> when he responds he has yet to give us the Type of Windows 10 he is running.
>
> The installer is 32-bit and will run just fine on even a pretty old
> machine (32-bit and Windows XP), so there's really nothing about his system
> being incompatible that should be causing the behavior he's seeing. Thus,
> knowing the architecture and version of his OS is pretty immaterial at this
> point. I'd place serious money on it being some sort of "security" software
> killing the installer as soon as it sees it do something totally legit that
> it decides is suspicious.
>
> For the rest of the readers in this thread, the installer we use is a
> separate thing and not under the direct control of the CHIRP project. It's
> a 32-bit application because it doesn't need to be a 64-bit one and gives
> the best opportunity to run everywhere as a result. However, I'm working on
> adding an architecture and OS version check to the script so that it will
> positively identify these unsupported situations in the future. That will
> rule out any need to suspect these sorts of issues when someone reports a
> problem.
>
> --Dan
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