cdk.exe install problem

cdk.exe install problem

[Michael Scheer]

I downloaded the beta18 cdk.exe.  The installation fails early on with 
the following error from installshield: 
 
"The decompression of %s failed.  There may no be enough free disk
space in the TEMP directory."

But I've got over 700 meg free in the volume holding $TEMP.  Ideas?
Thanks.

--Mike Scheer

 
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Re: cdk.exe install problem

[Jeremy Blackman]

On Mon, 4 Aug 1997, Michael Scheer wrote:

> I downloaded the beta18 cdk.exe.  The installation fails early on with 
> the following error from installshield: 
>  
> "The decompression of %s failed.  There may no be enough free disk
> space in the TEMP directory."
> 
> But I've got over 700 meg free in the volume holding $TEMP.  Ideas?
> Thanks.

I oughtta make a template for this sort of reply. ;)

[deep breath, into rehearsed speech]

Having had to build one too many InstallShield setups at my workplace, I
can tell you that this is a bug in InstallShield, not a bug in Cygnus'
installer.  If you have more than a certain number of files in your TEMP
directory - or if you have files named the same thing InstallShield wishes
to name its files (probably from past runs of other InstallShield
install scripts) which it cannot, for some reason, write over -
InstallShield will fail.  And not gracefully, either - this failure is
indicated by that dialog box you mentioned. :)

Clearing out your TEMP directory entirely should do it - that will get rid
of both any files with conflicting names, and the potential 'too many
files' problem. :)

[out of rehearsed reply]

Hope that helps!

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Re: cdk.exe install problem

[Geoffrey Noer]

Jeremy Blackman wrote:
[...]
> Clearing out your TEMP directory entirely should do it - that will get rid
> of both any files with conflicting names, and the potential 'too many
> files' problem. :)
[...]

Added the installshield problem to the gnu-win32 FAQ.  Thanks!

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Geoffrey Noer
noer@cygnus.com
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Re: cdk.exe install problem

[Michael Scheer]

>I had the same problem, and got a response from somebody that helped me.
>There is a bug in the installation. It seems that it fails when there are
>too many files in the TEMP directory, not just when it's out of space. Try
>removing some files from your TEMP directory. It worked for me.
>
>    Hope this help,
>    Robert Seeger


Thanks.  That seems to have done it, and I did not have that much sitting
around in $TEMP.  Strange.

--Mike Scheer

                                                                            
                                                                            
                                                                            
                                                                            
                                                                            
                                                                            
                                                                            
                                                                            
                                                                            
                                                                            
                                                                            
                                                                            
                                                                            
                                                                            
                                                                            
                                                                            
                                                       
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Re: cdk.exe install problem

[Robert Seeger]

I had the same problem, and got a response from somebody that helped me.
There is a bug in the installation. It seems that it fails when there are
too many files in the TEMP directory, not just when it's out of space. Try
removing some files from your TEMP directory. It worked for me.

				Hope this help,
				Robert Seeger


At 11:10 AM 8/4/97 -0600, Michael Scheer wrote:
>I downloaded the beta18 cdk.exe.  The installation fails early on with 
>the following error from installshield: 
> 
>"The decompression of %s failed.  There may no be enough free disk
>space in the TEMP directory."
>
>But I've got over 700 meg free in the volume holding $TEMP.  Ideas?
>Thanks.
>
>--Mike Scheer
>
> 
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