The installer should be able to install without administrative privileges on Windows

[RobCannon]

Our corporate environment does not give users admin rights on their computers. This installer should be able to install without requiring an administrator.

[kdaily]

Hi, agreed @RobCannon. Also see #4789, opened after this one.

[timschoeneberg]

Any idea if and when this will be finished? It is really painful for corporate users.

[willsheldon]

Workaround as found here

download the .msi file from Amazon website: https://awscli.amazonaws.com/AWSCLIV2.msi
use msiexec in command line to extract application from msi package:
msiexec /a %USERPROFILE%/Downloads/AWSCLIV2.msi /qb TARGETDIR=%USERPROFILE%\awscli
Now you can use awscli version 2 using the following command:

>%USERPROFILE%\awscliv2\Amazon\AWSCLIV2\aws --version
aws-cli/2.1.39 Python/3.8.8 Windows/10 exe/AMD64 prompt/off

[sanjib-basu]

Thanks @willsheldon ! this worked.

[bjethwan]

@willsheldon
msiexec /a %USERPROFILE%/Downloads/AWSCLIV2.msi /qb TARGETDIR=%USERPROFILE%\awscli

[willsheldon]

Oh, right, windows uses backslash:
msiexec /a %USERPROFILE%\Downloads\AWSCLIV2.msi /qb TARGETDIR=%USERPROFILE%\awscli

[dan-petty]

Gotta love having to edit your PATH to get this working simply because AWS refused to do a pip release. 👎

[fdaugan]

Single command installation workaround:

msiexec /a https://awscli.amazonaws.com/AWSCLIV2.msi /qb TARGETDIR=%USERPROFILE%\awscli

Then run it without touching environment variable:

doskey aws=%USERPROFILE%\awscli\Amazon\AWSCLIV2\aws.exe $* 
aws --version

[timblaktu]

@fdaugan's workaround, telling the installer to use a target dir in the user's home dir, works around the issue for me. Thanks!