Deploying Arduino 2.x to Computer Labs

Development Tools IDE 2.x
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Hello! I'm looking for software deployment help. I'm a Sys Admin for a handful of computer labs that we use Arduino in and we'd like to move to IDE 2 this summer. I have two things that I need to address before we'd be able to do that:

  1. When launching the IDE it attempts to install the base set of things (I'd love more detail, but they don't matter here). That set of things invokes dpinst for some driver installations, and I can't have that happening for normal, non-admin users. Any way to suppress that?

  2. We need to deploy a set of libraries along with the install so they're available upon launch for, yet again, non-admin users. Where should those be copied so they're available for all users?

I have silent installation and coverage for some base installs done:

"%PROGRAMFILES%\Arduino CLI\arduino-cli.exe" lib install Arduino_BuiltIn
"%PROGRAMFILES%\Arduino CLI\arduino-cli.exe" core install arduino:samd
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Hi mjgcet,

Any luck with resolving #1? I'm also a Sysadmin managing a few academic computer labs and I'm experiencing the same issue where users are receiving UAC prompts when launching Arduino. I've read through a few Arduino forum posts and it looks like the devs really did not consider situations where users do not have admin access such as computer labs.

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Nope! Left it to look at again next summer, we're sticking with the latest version of 1.x for now.

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