Install on windows

Hi,

Can we install privacyIDEA on windows? I tried to install on windows 10 but it gave following errors:

copying and adjusting pi-manage -> build\scripts-3.8
running install_lib
running install_data
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "C:\Users\mkamran\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-t9p5h0qk\privacyidea_acf06d2055734ae7a823f2aac3e7a799\setup.py", line 97, in <module>
    setup(
  File "C:\Projects\privacyidea\lib\site-packages\setuptools\__init__.py", line 153, in setup
    return distutils.core.setup(**attrs)
  File "c:\program files\python38\lib\distutils\core.py", line 148, in setup
    dist.run_commands()
  File "c:\program files\python38\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 966, in run_commands
    self.run_command(cmd)
  File "c:\program files\python38\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 985, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "C:\Projects\privacyidea\lib\site-packages\setuptools\command\install.py", line 61, in run
    return orig.install.run(self)
  File "c:\program files\python38\lib\distutils\command\install.py", line 557, in run
    self.run_command(cmd_name)
  File "c:\program files\python38\lib\distutils\cmd.py", line 313, in run_command
    self.distribution.run_command(command)
  File "c:\program files\python38\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 985, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "c:\program files\python38\lib\distutils\command\install_data.py", line 56, in run
    dir = convert_path(f[0])
  File "c:\program files\python38\lib\distutils\util.py", line 124, in convert_path
    raise ValueError("path '%s' cannot end with '/'" % pathname)
ValueError: path 'etc/privacyidea/' cannot end with '/'
----------------------------------------

ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: ‘C:\Projects\privacyidea\Scripts\python.exe’ -u -c ‘import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = ‘"’"‘C:\Users\mkamran\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-t9p5h0qk\privacyidea_acf06d2055734ae7a823f2aac3e7a799\setup.py’"’"’; file=’"’"‘C:\Users\mkamran\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-t9p5h0qk\privacyidea_acf06d2055734ae7a823f2aac3e7a799\setup.py’"’"’;f=getattr(tokenize, ‘"’"‘open’"’"’, open)(file);code=f.read().replace(’"’"’\r\n’"’"’, ‘"’"’\n’"’"’);f.close();exec(compile(code, file, ‘"’"‘exec’"’"’))’ install --record ‘C:\Users\mkamran\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-record-j76ti1g6\install-record.txt’ --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers ‘C:\Projects\privacyidea\include\site\python3.8\privacyidea’ Check the logs for full command output.

No!

Welcome to the privacyIDEA community. You should not consider installing on windows. privacyIDEA is a complex system with a lot of functionalities which will not work out on such an operating system!

Choose the installation on Ubuntu 20.04 or 18.04, which has the best polished packages.

Why would you install a SERVER SYSTEM on a CLIENT operating system anyways?
(Do not answer, this is a rhetorical question!)