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[q-lang-users] Release 7.1 Installation Failure

[Larry G. <lg...@ac...>]

People:

I just downloaded Qpad-7.1.msi  The installation failed with message "A 
network error occurred while attempting to read from the file 
'C:\windows\installer\qpad-7.1rc3.msi'".

Any help will be appreciated.

Larry Gregg

Re: [q-lang-users] Release 7.1 Installation Failure

[Albert G. <Dr....@t-...>]

Larry Gregg wrote:
> I just downloaded Qpad-7.1.msi  The installation failed with message "A 
> network error occurred while attempting to read from the file 
> 'C:\windows\installer\qpad-7.1rc3.msi'".

Hmm, did you install RC3 before? If so, then try removing that version 
before installing the final release, maybe that helps. (That shouldn't 
actually happen, but apparently the "Advanced Installer" freeware that 
I'm using to build the MSIs has its problems with proper versioning.)

HTH,
Albert

-- 
Dr. Albert Gr"af
Dept. of Music-Informatics, University of Mainz, Germany
Email:  Dr....@t-..., ag...@mu...
WWW:    http://www.musikinformatik.uni-mainz.de/ag

Re: [q-lang-users] Release 7.1 Installation Failure

[<lg...@in...>]

Quoting Albert Graef <Dr....@t-...>:

> Larry Gregg wrote:
> > I just downloaded Qpad-7.1.msi  The installation failed with message =
"A
> > network error occurred while attempting to read from the file
> > 'C:\windows\installer\qpad-7.1rc3.msi'".
>
> Hmm, did you install RC3 before? If so, then try removing that version
> before installing the final release, maybe that helps. (That shouldn't
> actually happen, but apparently the "Advanced Installer" freeware that
> I'm using to build the MSIs has its problems with proper versioning.)
>
> HTH,
> Albert
>
> --
> Dr. Albert Gr"af
> Dept. of Music-Informatics, University of Mainz, Germany
> Email:  Dr....@t-..., ag...@mu...
> WWW:    http://www.musikinformatik.uni-mainz.de/ag
>
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Yes, I did install RC3 first.  I will uninstall it and then install 7.1.

Thanks,

Larry Gregg

Re: [q-lang-users] Release 7.1 Installation Failure

[Larry G. <lg...@ac...>]

lg...@in... wrote:
> Quoting Albert Graef <Dr....@t-...>:
>
>   
>> Larry Gregg wrote:
>>     
>>> I just downloaded Qpad-7.1.msi  The installation failed with message "A
>>> network error occurred while attempting to read from the file
>>> 'C:\windows\installer\qpad-7.1rc3.msi'".
>>>       
>> Hmm, did you install RC3 before? If so, then try removing that version
>> before installing the final release, maybe that helps. (That shouldn't
>> actually happen, but apparently the "Advanced Installer" freeware that
>> I'm using to build the MSIs has its problems with proper versioning.)
>>
>> HTH,
>> Albert
>>
>> --
>> Dr. Albert Gr"af
>> Dept. of Music-Informatics, University of Mainz, Germany
>> Email:  Dr....@t-..., ag...@mu...
>> WWW:    http://www.musikinformatik.uni-mainz.de/ag
>>
>>
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>>     
>
> Yes, I did install RC3 first.  I will uninstall it and then install 7.1.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Larry Gregg
>
>
>
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>   
This turned out to be more of a chore than I expected.   Apparently, I 
tried to delete RC3 manually, before installing V7.1.  This left the 
Registry with a lot of entries pointing to missing files, etc.  I had to 
use a Registry fixer to get rid of the missing links.  I had no idea 
that Q modified the reqistry, and with so many items!

So, beware.  Use the Windows uninstaller for any  version of Q, when you 
need to uninstall it.

Larry Gregg

Re: [q-lang-users] Release 7.1 Installation Failure

[Albert G. <Dr....@t-...>]

Larry Gregg wrote:
> This turned out to be more of a chore than I expected.   Apparently, I 
> tried to delete RC3 manually, before installing V7.1.  This left the 
> Registry with a lot of entries pointing to missing files, etc.  I had to 
> use a Registry fixer to get rid of the missing links.  I had no idea 
> that Q modified the reqistry, and with so many items!

The interpreter and all the other command line programs included will 
never use the registry. Never. The QPad editor/mini IDE does, just like 
about any other Windows application, but it keeps all its entries 
(mostly option settings of the application) under a single parent key 
and it should never be necessary to manually remove those, Qpad will 
update them as needed.

But I guess that MSI also updates the registry, so that it knows where 
to find stuff that it needs to remove when upgrading a package to a 
newer version. Or maybe it's just the way that "Advanced Installer" does 
things. If anyone can recommend another freeware MSI builder which just 
works, and makes it reasonably easy to just create a simple package with 
a few files and some menu and desktop links, I'll be happy to give that 
a try.

Albert

-- 
Dr. Albert Gr"af
Dept. of Music-Informatics, University of Mainz, Germany
Email:  Dr....@t-..., ag...@mu...
WWW:    http://www.musikinformatik.uni-mainz.de/ag