[wpkg-users] Cannot install wpkg on W2k3 Terminal Server

[Rainer Meier]

Hi Tomoasz,

Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> Probably, the installer needs some love on Windows 2003. I can't give 
> you any help right now, and what's worse, I don't have access to a 
> Windows 2003 installation I could experiment on.

Probably Alan could try an earlier version of WPKG GUI. Probably 1.2-rc6 
which is basically the same compiled on an older Visual Studio as you said.

In fact I was getting a similar message recently on a Windows Vista 
32-bit machine. It did not state any "Runtime Error" but just said that 
the uninstall procedure failed "in an unusual way". Yes, it happened to 
me when trying to remove the package. After that also a 
re-install/repair failed with the same message. So I was unable to 
repair or uninstall it.

I had to manually clean all WPKG entries from the registry to be able to 
re-install it.


> Do you have any errors in Event Log as it happens?

At least on my machine there have been no more information within the 
event log than displayed already within the dialog window. "This 
application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way."

Most probably it is somehow related to the way the WPKG GUI installer 
calls wpkginst.exe after copying the files to the local disk. Probably 
just the exit codes of wpkginst.exe are to b changed... who knows...


br,
Rainer