Setup 'ends prematurely' on windows XP

Hornet · 07-13-2012, 11:51 PM

Upon installing either 0.8.60 or the older 0.8.55 , I'm greeted with the following error 'after' installation.

Quote:

calibre Setup Wizard ended prematurely because of an error

calibre Setup Wizard ended prematurely because of an error. Your system has not been modified. To install this program again at a later time, run Setup Wizard again. Click the Finish button to exit the Setup Wizard.

Not sure what to try/do, as it's a flat-out failure with no useful error messages.

Any advice much appreciated. I'm happy to run a 'debug' installation to test things if one of the calibre team wants to provide a binary/msi file.

kovidgoyal · 07-13-2012, 11:53 PM

http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq....is-not-working

Hornet · 07-14-2012, 12:08 AM

Service++

Portable 'installation' works perfectly, many thanks. If it helps with debugging, I can assert that it was neither due to download corruption nor antivirus/security meddling. Registry corruption I suppose may be possible, but nothing else has had issues.

Thanks again.

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07-13-2012, 11:53 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,853 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq....is-not-working

07-14-2012, 12:08 AM	#3
Hornet Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2012 Device: Touchpad	Service++ Portable 'installation' works perfectly, many thanks. If it helps with debugging, I can assert that it was neither due to download corruption nor antivirus/security meddling. Registry corruption I suppose may be possible, but nothing else has had issues. Thanks again.

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