I just want to install rhino 5 without the zoo

I tried to do this but the installer won't let me do it. I went ahead and and installed the zoo. Now it say to contact my zoo admin. I followed the instructions about deleting the registry entry and relaunching rhino 5. Again it says that my key is invalid.

Why would my key be invalid?

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Permalink Reply by Dale Fugier on February 19, 2013 at 8:18am

Hi David,

> I tried to do this but the installer won't let me do it.

What does this mean?

The Zoo is a network, or floating, license manager. It is useful if you have more users of Rhino than you do licenses of Rhino. If this something that does not apply to your situation, then you should not have checked the "Float my license on the network using the Zoo" check box during the installation of Rhino.

With this said, if you want convert a Rhino installation from a network-node to a standalone node, then following these instructions.

http://wiki.mcneel.com/zoo/converttostandalone

After this, you can uninstall the Zoo from your Rhino system.

Let me know if this helps.

-- Dale

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Permalink Reply by David armstrong on February 19, 2013 at 10:26am

Sorry about the self referencing post. The installer wasn't letting me start rhino without 1st installing the zoo. Both zoo and rhino were telling me that my key was invalid. It turns out that the problem was due to a key issue. The label on the outside of the jewelcase was 1 character different than the label on the booklet INSIDE the jewelcase. DOH!!!

This happened to a comrade of mine too.

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Permalink Reply by Dale Fugier on February 19, 2013 at 10:35am

In what way did the 2 CD keys differ? Was it just a matter of the letter I looking like the number 1, or the letter O looking like the number 0, or something else?

-- Dale