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

Hi Volker and Olaf,

Am 14.01.2011 10:29, schrieb Olaf Felka:
> 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.

I second this. If a company use Win2000 as work environment, they are
stubled or will stumble over this problem with other software also. So
they have to fix this problem anyway.

Thorsten