Thread: installing calibre
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Old 05-03-2012, 07:50 AM   #4
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Originally Posted by mrmikel View Post
This issue was looked into a while ago and a Microsoft employee got involved in trying to shorten or eliminate the process, since this is a function of the Microsoft installation software.

Unfortunately, he concluded there wasn't any way around it. It seems to be a function of large numbers of files in the installation package.
Yes, it is. That's why I wonder which Calibre version the OP is trying to install. Kovid mostly worked around the issue quite a while ago by putting all Python functions in a single ZIP file (pylib.zip) instead of having them in separate files.

That helped immensely.
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