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#98 installation failure for Win2K

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nobody
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2004-04-28
2004-04-27
akrassowski
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Using all defaults for Install of build 201.

wxPython Demo works fine as do Idle and python from a
DOS prompt - all are for Python 2.3.3.

I get this error:
Can't load Python for pre-install script

I don't have Admin permissions on this box, so maybe
that confuses the installer ?

Discussion

  • Mark Hammond

    Mark Hammond - 2004-04-28

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    This appears to be more a distutils issue than ours.
    Unfortunately, I don't think distutils writes diagnostic
    information anywhere, but it should, and I may add it.

     
  • Mark Hammond

    Mark Hammond - 2004-04-28
    • labels: 518544 --> installation
     
  • kennanm

    kennanm - 2004-05-04

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    I reproduced this error on Build 201.1 under WinXP+SP1. I
    have admin permissions, and python directory is in path.
    Setup detects python entries in registry, then fails with
    "Can't load Python for pre-install script".

    Copying the setup program to the same directory as the
    python executable circumvents this problem.

     
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