Philippe,

Philippe Makowski wrote:

> Werner F. Bruhin [08-11-21 15.22] :
>
>> A little note to the installer, it gives errors if I run it by just
>> double clicking the file. Has to do with the Vista UAC (user access
>> control), also my id is an admin account installers which change reg
>> entries need to be elevated. Normally an install should do this
>> automatically if the appropriate option/setting is done in the installer
>> script. You might want to look into this. If I run as admin then all
>> is fine.
>>
> And do you know how do to that with distutil ?
>

I did not but doing a bit of googling it seems that just renaming the
installer to something like
kinterbasdb-3.3.0.win32-setup-py2.5.exe does the trick (i.e. add the
word setup).

http://www.velocityreviews.com/forums/t612156-pywin32-vista-installer-fix-amp-general-distutils-installer-name-bug.html

The following thread also talks about it, but I do not see that they
came to a conclusion.
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2007-July/007805.html

Best regards
Werner