Trouble installing

Aspose.Words Product Family
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Hi, I’m having a problem installing Aspose.Words.4.4.2.0. I downloaded the MSI file and saved it to c:\temp\Aspose.Words.4420.msi. I started the installer file… After awhile I get “The feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailable.”

“Click OK to try again, or enter an alternate path to a folder containing the installation package ‘Aspose.Words.msi’ in the box below.” So I enter c:\temp\Aspose.Words.4420.msi again. I then get … “The file ‘C:\temp\Aspose.Words4420.msi’ is not a valid installation package for the product Aspose.Words. Tryo to find the installation package ‘Aspose.Words.msi’ in a folder from which you can install Aspose.Words.”

I hit Cancel. I get “The older version of Aspose.Words cannot be removed. Contact your technical support group.” I click OK. I get “The installer was interrupted before Aspose.Words could be installed. You need to restart the installer to try again.” Tried several times. Tried with different filename for the installer, in a different location. Tried rebooting and tried again. No luck.

Any ideas?

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Hi
Thanks for your inquiry. Try first to remove older version of Aspose.Words and then run installation. Could you please provide me information about your system configuration?
Also I attached Aspose.Words.dll v4.4.2.0.
Best regards.

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Thanks for attaching the DLL, which is the main thing I wanted.
I did also try uninstalling the old version first using the “Add or Remove Programs” feature in the Control Panel, and got a similar error, if I recall. Is there any way to explicitly remove the old version, including registry editing? I know, it’s dangerous.
I’m on Windows XP, with plenty of memory and disk space available.
The old version of Aspose is on my C: drive in the default location.

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Hi
Try renaming your msi file. New name should be “Aspose.Words4420.msi” or “Aspose.Words.msi”. May be this will help.
Best regards.

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I’ve tried renaming it to Aspose.Words.msi, but that didn’t work.

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Hi!
Try renaming, archiving or moving somewhere the entire folder
C:\Program Files\Aspose\Aspose.Words.
Then install the new version. Don’t delete old one before you are sure everything works fine.
Regards,

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I’ve tried that too. I’ve also tried running a registry cleanup program.
I’m about to try running the registry cleanup program after renaming the Aspose.Words folder again.

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I’m afraid that didn’t work either. For what it’s worh Aspose.Words still shows up in Add/Remove Programs, but there’s no Delete button there.

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Hi

Also you can try reinstalling (repairing) older version of Aspose.Words and then install the latest version.

Best regards.

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I tried that, with the same result.
HOWEVER, I finally managed to install it successfully. I think the problem may have been that with previous installations I had selected the option to install for “everyone that uses this computer”, and this time I had selected for “myself”. Setting it to install for “everyone that uses this computer” allowed the installation to be successful.
I hope that this record of the error messages I saw helps anyone else that runs into the problem.
Regards,
Steve

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journeymansix, you siad you finally managed to install it successfully but didn’t explain how. Please let me know, I’m practically fed up here trying to get a new version of Aspose.Words to insta… Thanks!