Re: Re: Nominating Issue 116439 and accepting Issue 116318 and Issue 116371

Hi,

2011/1/14 Olaf Felka <[email protected]>:
> On 01/14/11 09:48, Thorsten Ziehm wrote:
>> as I heard and what I could read in the issue it isn't a general problem
>> with installing OOo 3.3 RCx on Windows 2000. So it isn't needed to
>> change the system requirements. Because it couldn't reproduced on every
>> Windows 2000 system.
>>
>> If you have the same problem as Volker, please help to identify the
>> rout cause of the error.
>>
>> On the other hand please take also a look in the Windows Knowledge
>> database or google about the problem (search for "Windows 2000
>> MSVCR90.DLL missing"). You will see, it isn't a OOo-Problem only.
>> A lot of software have such problem with this operation system.
>>
>
> this is not a general problem in OOo. It seems that the problem is caused by
> the vcredist.exe and the Microsoft Installer (MSI).
> OOo requires MSI version 2.x. Vcredist requires MSI version 3.x. As you can
> read in issue 116035 Volkers system provides MSI 2.x.
>
> Updating the Microsoft Installer on e.g.
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=889482fc-5f56-4a38-b838-de776fd4138c
> will solve the problem.
>
I will continue to help with the investigation.
Please have an in mind that I used a relatively fresh system for the
test which has been set up in a VM just for testing the builds. So
anyone could stumble into this. You can't count in that other
installation have brought the missing/updated system parts before.


Bye

Volker


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++ Volker Merschmann - ODF-Software Contributor