Error reading setup initialization file (4.2.5 only)
 

3.9.4 thru 4.2.4 installs fine, 4.2.5 gives me a titleless window without text on the OK button that says Error reading setup initialization file.
I've uninstalled LW, deleted the $Prog\Limewire dir, run a registry scan, double-checked in the Windows Installer Clean-up Utility, rebooted over & over.....
I looked at another link about this, and it linked to some greek about the msi package... I'm hoping for a solution in english.
...Already got a support e-mail to Pro sales, maybe someone here has beat this one already tho.

thanks



specs:
xp home sp2
512 ram
1.5g celly
(xtra healthy system)

Update your Installshield install engines. Chances are this is the problem: update your installshield install engine. I hope this is not the link you were refering to. But scroll down to the bottom of the page & choose XP.

Thanks, but that didn't do it... My driver folder has 7, 8 & 9 in it, so I updated all of them after 7 didn't do it...

So what was the error number you received anyway? Knowing that may help to narrow down the causes & solutions. So I presume you have up to date Java? (dare I ask a silly question.)

So which driver is it you're using to install LW. Are you sure the right one is active whilst you're installing LW.

isscript error
 

while installing Limewire I get the following error: An error occurred while downloading the file http://www.installengine.com/cert02/.../isscript.msi. I check the version on limewire install program and it came up with 7.4.262.0 so I downloaded and installed Isscript7. I still get the same problem. I have a 1 gightz xp (home) 512 meg ram, 120 gig hd lynksys router to dsl modem running alarmzone pro firewall. any help/suggestion would be great, email: *******, thanks

No mail addys, read forum rules

forgot...
 

I also downloaded and installed the latest java 1.4.2; thanks again

i use java 5, and there's no text in the error window at all...
here's a screenshot
this is what happens a second after opening the msi

maybe here's the screenshot....

ver 4.2.5 failed but 4.2.6 worked
 

Good news, I was successful in installing 4.2.6 on my system. Seems everything is working great now...
jibaro

Glad to hear it jibaro.

For the next release, we're likely going to be using a whole new installer, built from NSIS (Nullsoft's Scriptable Install System). We've managed to get a working version of it in the office, and it'd be good to test it in increments. (We're probably going to build network-retrieval of files into the installer -- that is, the installer itself would be tiny, and it would retrieve the files for installation from Gnutella itself, doing all the necessary validation of course.)

sberlin may I ask why use an installer for Mac OSX? I'm not sure what arguments there are for using an installer. Why not just offer a dmg file so people can mount it, drag & drop LW to wherever they choose? The present installer version installs it in the Applications folder (without a choice.) But not everybody wants it to be there; perhaps either in a sub-folder or even on another HDD or partition.

The OSX installer actually does some work.

Installing to another directory or partition is another matter -- we could make that option available in the installer. To date, we've chosen not to because it increases the complexity somewhat, and the Applications folder is standard for OSX.