Re: Installation problem on WinXP...

Gerhard Häring <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.db.pysqlite.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Jim Cook wrote:
> I'm trying to run pysqlite-2.3.3.win32-py2.4.exe to
> install pysqlite on WinXP.  However, the installer is
> giving me an error message saying "The instruction at
> xxx referenced memory at xxx.  The memory could not be
> read". 
> 
> Could this be caused by an access rights problem? 
> I've tried downloading the installer a second time,
> but I get the same message when trying the
> installation again.

In my experience, the cause is access rights. I always get that problem, 
when I download an EXE with Cygwin's wget and then try to run the 
(non-Cygwin) win32 executable. chmod +x does help IIRC.

-- Gerhard
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