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‎Oct 07, 2014
10:37 AM
how do you determine what is causing a pre-requisite to fail?
how do you determine what is causing a pre-requisite to fail?
I've added logs for each pre-requisite and they appear to successfully install, but somehow my calling installer indicates that the pre-req failed to install.
I'm at loss in what to look for. Any ideas?
I've added logs for each pre-requisite and they appear to successfully install, but somehow my calling installer indicates that the pre-req failed to install.
I'm at loss in what to look for. Any ideas?
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‎Oct 07, 2014
02:03 PM
Reports of a prerequisite failing are typically caused by its conditions not changing after it is installed. Make sure that it looks for an artifact that the installation will update, be it a file, file version, or registry change. (This also happens if the prerequisite fails to install, of course.)
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‎Oct 17, 2014
08:53 AM
One thing you can do is run your setup.exe from the command line and pass it the switch /debuglog this logfile should output the prereq's and you might catch why it's failing.
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