Windows installation issues

[untoldbyte]

I have a windows machine, with elixir and erlang installed via vfox.
The desktop installer fails with an error during erlang check step.

but if we abort installation and then continue using the installed files, the livebook works well.

I have also tried by installing via the mix escript install method, where the escript is installed but when we run livebook server there is an error i.e. ** (file.error) could not touch "appdata/local/temp/livebook/0.15.1/escript/.extracted": no such file or directory.

[jonatanklosko]

cc @wojtekmach for the installer issue :)

I have also tried by installing via the mix escript install method, where the escript is installed but when we run livebook server there is an error

To help to debug this, please go to the directory where livebook is located, run iex and let me know the output of this snippet:

:escript.extract(~c"livebook", []) |> elem(1) |> Keyword.fetch!(:archive) |> :zip.extract([:memory]) |> elem(1) |> Enum.map(&elem(&1, 0)) |> Enum.each(&IO.inspect/1)

[wojtekmach]

Thank you for the report. I'll see if we can improve the error message. Since the installation indicated it failed but running livebook did succeed maybe we need to change this installation step, let users know something went wrong but not have them "cancel" which doesn't do anything anyway.