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.NET Forum / Visual Studio.NET / Setup / March 2008VS2008 won't install
I've install VS2008 on my main desktop without a problem but I can't get it to install on my notebook, or, now having got partially through the install, uninstall it, so I'm now stuck knowing what to do next. The notebook had VS2005 on it, which I had to uninstall to save space. This went cleany and I rebooted afterwards. Installing VS2008 get through the 'Pre-requisites, Netframework 3.5, MS Document Explorer 2008 and MS Visual Web Authoring Component, but bombs out when install VS2008 itself. When trying to uninstall it removes all the installed components but again bombs out on VS2008. When I look at the log it there's a line saying that VS2008 wasn't installed. If I try to repair/reinstall it fails and the error log shows: ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND/ERROR_INSTALL_PACKAGE_OPEN_FAILED returned in CRootComponent::Install for: C:\Windows\Installer\6c3415f8.msi Any suggestions???  SignatureIan Haynes I don't know exactly what happens to your installation. You should post the logfile that is created when you try to install VS 2008. > The notebook had VS2005 on it, which I had to uninstall to save space. This > went cleany and I rebooted afterwards. Installing VS2008 get through the > 'Pre-requisites, Netframework 3.5, MS Document Explorer 2008 and MS Visual > Web Authoring Component, but bombs out when install VS2008 itself. Sounds like the following post that describes my solution may help you: http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.vstudio.se tup&mid=a46dcf4e-9fa8-463e-83ef-394a3b158563 (I am still wondering if it helps anybody, I did not get any feedback/helpful-rating for this so far) > When trying to uninstall it removes all the installed components but again > bombs out on VS2008. When I look at the log it there's a line saying that > VS2008 wasn't installed. That location C:\Windows\Installer\6c3415f8.msi is where a cached smaller version of an installed MSI product is saved. I hope you didn't clean out that folder to save space! Otherwise, the install seems to have gone far enough to think its installed but didn't put the cached MSI file there. That would have to be a severe crash of the msiserver service doing the install. SignaturePhil Wilson [MVP Windows Installer] > I've install VS2008 on my main desktop without a problem but I can't get > it to install on my notebook, or, now having got partially through the [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Any suggestions??? > That location C:\Windows\Installer\6c3415f8.msi is where a cached smaller > version of an installed MSI product is saved. I hope you didn't clean out > that folder to save space! Otherwise, the install seems to have gone far > enough to think its installed but didn't put the cached MSI file there. > That would have to be a severe crash of the msiserver service doing the > install. No I haven't cleaned that folder, although I did clean the temp folder after a couple of initial trys installing it, based on a suggestion in the release notes. Any thoughts on how I get out of this? Ian Haynes If you can locate the actual Visual Studio 2008 MSI file and copy it to that location as the name it's looking for that should allow the uninstall to proceed. I've done that in these cases. I *think* it's usually called vs_setup.msi, something like that. Clearing the temp folder might have had something to do with it. I've noticed that the temp folder is where it stores that cached MSI file before it copies it to Windows\installer. But onh the other hand if the install crashed badly it would never have got copied to windows\installer, but you might have noticed the missing 6c3415f8.msi in the temp folder and copied it to where it was needed. SignaturePhil Wilson [MVP Windows Installer] >> That location C:\Windows\Installer\6c3415f8.msi is where a cached smaller >> version of an installed MSI product is saved. I hope you didn't clean out [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Ian Haynes I've just looked for c:\windows\installer\6c3415f8.msi and find that there is no c:\windows\installer directory. Looking on my desktop I don't see that directory either, so presumably it's a temp directory used during installation and then deleted. If this is the case, is the install deleting it too early? Ian > If you can locate the actual Visual Studio 2008 MSI file and copy it to > that location as the name it's looking for that should allow the uninstall [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] >> >> Ian Haynes Phil, Correction, it's a hidden folder (doh!), but, there was no 6c3415f8.msi . I copied vs_setup.msi over as suggested and tried repairing the install, rather than uninstalling. Success! Your help very much appreciated. Ian > I've just looked for c:\windows\installer\6c3415f8.msi and find that there > is no c:\windows\installer directory. [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] >>> >>> Ian Haynes
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