Thanks Brian. If it's a known bug, why don't they pull that installer down?
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 10:45 PM, Brian Curtin <brian.cur...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 23:55, Tony Cappellini <cappy2...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> This is OT, but I can't seem to get an answer on CLP. >> >> Has anyone else had problems running the msi for Python 2.6.6 on >> Windows 7 Professional? >> >> If I don't check "Compile .py to byte code", the installer completes >> without error. >> >> Checking "Compile .py to byte code" causes the following to be >> displayed >> >> "There is a problem with the windows installer package. A program run >> as part of setup did not complete as expected" >> >> 1. I have GB of disk space available. >> 2. I have admin privileges >> 3. The MD5 checksum of the downloaded installer matches the MD5 >> checksum on python.org >> 4. Run As Adminsitrator is not available when I Shift-Right Click >> (probably because my login already has admin privileges) > > It's a known bug in the installer. I'd have to dig through the tracker to > find the issue numbers, but I reported this issue for a 3.1.x installer and > tested out a fix which appeared to work. The fix might not have been > backported to 2.x, though. _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
