Number: 70
Title: Graphviz-Installer overwrites environment variable
Submitter: Sören Köhler
Date: Thu Jan 3 12:50:34 2002
Subsys: Installation
Version: 1.7.12 Win
System: x86-Other-Windows NT 4.0 SP 6
Severity: major
Problem:
Hello,

I just tried the "Graphviz"-Package for Win32. When I'd installed it, my path-setting for some DOS-based utilities didn't work anymore. A short look in the file install.log and in the system properties page showed, that the current users PATH-variable was changed completely from their old value "%PATH%;<Mypathes>" to "%PATH%;<Graphvizpathes>".

I'm afraid this could cause some havoc for some people, having important and long path-entries in the user-environment-vars.

Thanx, Sören
Owner: north/serban
Status: Fixed (7 Feb 2002 with 1.8.0 release)