[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #56956] Installs in incorrect location, uninstall also fails after following online steps

[John Donoghue]

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #56956 (project octave):

Installing to d: works for me.

It does install some stuff to the user profile directory just like every other
windows application may. So if that is on your C: drive, then that is where
that will be installed.

This will be:
1. some settings files in .config\octave

2. some start menu items to Windows\Start Menu\Programs in your user profile,
to the windows start menu folder, depending on whether you select to install
for all users.

3. It will also install some shortcuts on the desktop if you have that option
set 

Each of these are based on where your windows install has been set to store
this data. So isn't really controllable by octave, and I believe is how every
other windows application works.


The installer checks the install part of the registry for a previous
installation, and that is why you see the error about an installation
existing, so if you removed files you should not have removed, then you will
have to go into the registry and remove the entries your self.

Probably from:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Octave-5.1.0.0





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