Am I Eating Crazy Pills?!?!

[gte619n]

Hey all,

I just finished off a fresh install of WinXP Pro and I'd like to install GB-PVR to use with my nVidia DualTV Tuner. I must be going crazy, becasue I can't get the package to install. I download the MSI file, run it, accept all the defaults, and I get an:

"Internal Error 2908."

it seems to recover from that and keeps going, until it gets a:

"Error 1935. An error occurred during the installation of the assembly. 'wmppia, Version="9.0.0.3095",Culture="neutrual",PublicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35",GUID="6bf52a50-394a-11d3-b153-00c04f79faa6". Please refer to Help and Support for more information. HRESULT0x..."

Am I doing something wrong? Do I need to install any other packages before installing the MSI under "Download" on the homepage?

Thanks,

Evan

[sub]

Did you install the required pre-requisite .NET 2.0?

[gte619n]

That did it! Thanks,

Evan

[gEd]

Our friend here is not the first person to miss the .NET 2.0 pre-requisite. Currently the home page has a download link to the .msi file, whereupon people will just "give it a go".

Perhaps this link should be directed to a page that points them to critical wiki and sticky links (quick start, survival guide, posting support questions) that they should read before installing.

$0.02

[CarolinaGuy]

A better way would be to re-create the MSI so that it would look for NET2 and then install it, if not available, on the machine.

CarolinaGuy

[sub]

A better way would be to re-create the MSI so that it would look for NET2 and then install it, if not available, on the machine.

CarolinaGuy

I had wanted to check for the existence of .NET 2.0 and refuse to install without it, but unfortunately the packaging tool I use can only detect the existence of .NET 1.0 or .NET 1.1.

I dont want to include the .NET runtime in the install package. I'd rather the user download it themselves to save 40000 downloads per month of a wasted extra 15MB.

[-Oz-]

now there is even a .net 3.0

[Wakalaka]

I had wanted to check for the existence of .NET 2.0 and refuse to install without it, but unfortunately the packaging tool I use can only detect the existence of .NET 1.0 or .NET 1.1.

I dont want to include the .NET runtime in the install package. I'd rather the user download it themselves to save 40000 downloads per month of a wasted extra 15MB.

A good intermediate solution would be to have one of the first screens in the installer say what the requirements are, and have a link to the .NET 2.0 binary that is clickable. Put it in BOLD [SIZE="7"]big font[/SIZE] so the user is less likely to click next to get on with the install.

[bgowland]

I had wanted to check for the existence of .NET 2.0 and refuse to install without it, but unfortunately the packaging tool I use can only detect the existence of .NET 1.0 or .NET 1.1.

sub - is your installer able to check to see if a Registry key exists?

Checking for the existence of HKLM\Software\Microsoft\.NETFramework\v2.0.50727 should be enough.

Cheers,
Brian

[sub]

There probably is a some manual stuff I could do, but I'm not bothered enough by it to commit any time to it.