Calibre portable for windows1/18/2024 ![]() The entire reason to switching to scoop and portable versions everywhere possible for my software needs was/is to keep my footprint as small and contained as possible on Windows, while also streamlining my ability to backup & manage software. In a similar vain, environmental variables and the use of the AppData dir makes moving software and creating backups more troublesome because everything is no longer encapsulated to one directory and the related config files. Globally installed programs defeats the purpose of the isolating nature of scoop to the user profile it's actually a large part of the reason why I prefer it over chocolatey for windows software management. And scoop should beĮli for the late reply been busy with work and the covid-19 issues Install/reinstall/uninstall the calibre program. Since calibre-portable.exe won't let you use a persistent alternative > manager I use for updating/installing/uninstalling/resetting my calibre Why is it so important to avoid env vars? And scoop should beįully capable of extracting the program from the MSI installer. ![]() Install/ reinstall/ uninstall the calibre program. The middleman and write your own batch script with your own env vars,įairly trivially. Script setting a few env vars and running calibre.exe, you could cut out Library directory, and it is just a compiled equivalent to a batch exe won't let you use a persistent alternative Reason you need to use the portable version? Globally installed programs too, not just portable ones. >From visiting the homepage of scoop, it looks like it should support > Nor does any solution involving modifying my env variables. > The portable version fascilitates the above, the normal one does not. > manager I use for updating/ installing/ uninstalling/ resetting my calibre > correctly), but this would defeat the purpose of the automated package > enviroment variables for the calibre config dir (if I'm reading the docs > To be clear, I'm sure I could continue my current setup via the use of On 3/29/20 12:01 AM, Jonathan Allbritten wrote:
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