Cannot install IDEasy on Windows

[hohwille]

I downloaded the MSI installer of IDEasy on my windows computer and started it.
Then I got this error:

Is there still a way to use IDEasy?

[hohwille]

Yes, you can instead download the *.tar.gz release archive for Windows and extract it to your local disc (e.g. in ~/Downloads/ideasy).
Then run the setup.bat script that is included.

IDEasy will only write to the IDE_ROOT directory that you can define. If you run setup.bat from within your home directory, then IDE_ROOT will be set to ~/projects.
Additionally to writing into IDE_ROOT and ~/Downloads/ide, ~/.bashrc, etc. IDEasy will modify two environment variables only for your user (HKCU):

• IDE_ROOT
• PATH - is extended with $IDE_ROOT/_ide/installation/bin

This does not require administrative permissions. Even if it would, you could still use IDEasy by adding the variables to your .bashrc file manually.