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

Hi Volker,

On 01/14/11 10:22, Volker Merschmann wrote:
> 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.

I don't think that a fresh installed system is a common use case of a 
ten year old operating system.

Groetjes
Olaf

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> Bye
>
> Volker
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