Partial installation based on available privileges

A computer system comprising:

• a memory which contains component data generated by the following method:
• (a) obtaining a plurality of component identifications identifying respective components, each component having at least one respective install-uninstall-privilege requirement, at least two of the components having different respective install-uninstall-privilege requirements;
• (b) for a given component, automatically identifying at least one privilege that is required to install-uninstall the component;
• (c) ascertaining whether the at least one privilege required to install-uninstall the component is available to the current user on the computer system;
• and
• (d) installing-uninstalling the component in the computer system memory if the at least one privilege required to install-uninstall the component is available to the current user on the computer system;
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• a processor in operable communication with the memory to facilitate the method.

A storage medium configured with computer code for a method of partially installing a set of components based on privileges that are available to a user on a computer system, the method comprising the steps of:

• (a) obtaining a plurality of component identifications identifying respective components, each component having at least one respective install-uninstall-privilege requirement, at least two of the components having different respective install-uninstall-privilege requirements;
• (b) for a given component, automatically identifying at least one privilege that is required to install-uninstall the component;
• (c) automatically ascertaining whether the at least one privilege required to install-uninstall the component is available to the current user on the computer system;
• (d) automatically installing-uninstalling the component in the computer system memory if the at least one privilege required to install-uninstall the component is available to the current user on the computer system;
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• (e) repeating at least steps (b) through (d) until multiple components identified during step (a) have been installed-uninstalled on the computer system.