Navigate to the desired installation directory, ensuring you are running as the desired user and extract the archive using either 3rd party utilities such as 7-Zip or the Windows Powershell command. For example:
Details of the available Expand-Archive options can be found on the Microsoft website (external link).
Testing has shown the Expand-Archive command is quite slow so you may prefer to use a utility such as 7-Zip. You should not use the Windows tar command, as it can be buggy and occasionally will not extract all files in the archive.
You MUST set the
QAC_LOCATION environment variable before using the Eclipse plugin or Visual Studio extension - see 'Using a specific version of Perforce QAC' in the respective manual on how to set this.No GUI Menu entries will be created.
No plugins (VS Code, Eclipse or Visual Studio) are automatically registered/installed. See the respective manuals for details on how this can be done.
Post Installation Actions
Depending upon the user’s set-up you may want to update your PATH environment variable to include the Perforce QAC executables. For example: