Posted: 3/17/2010 9:40 AM
Post subject: Question about installing TortoiseSVN on Virtual PC
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Walker_Boh
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Hello! Today I have some more questions about the wonders of technology. On the good note, I'm starting to feel less and less dumb about it. Computers really are magic sometimes :) Allright, so on to the problem. At work I want to run a virtual Vista machine on my local computer which is a Windows 7 Enterprise. I downloaded Virtual PC since no virtual machine was included in Enterprise (no, it really wasn't!) and was able to get it running and installing Vista on it. After this I want to install SVN and TortoiseSVN so I can check stuff out. SVN installs fine, but not Tortoise. And this is my real problem. When I try to install TortoiseSVN I get the following message box: "Please wait while the installer finishes determining your disk space requirments." After this nothing happens and I have to cancel the installation. So I've talked to Internal support (which are really great guys) but unfortunately they had no ideas. And I've done my googling. What I've tried so far is to disable Virtual Machine Additions and disabling the UAC stuff. Nothing of this worked for me. I also found this site: http://weblogs.asp.net/jgaylord/archive/2009/05/29/installing-visualsvn-in-a-virtual-pc.aspx which suggests the following command: msiexec.exe /package MSIPackageName.msi /qr this didn't work either. Unless of course I did it wrong? I just simply tried to run it in the Start -> Search field since I couldn't come up with anything else to do it. And the latest thing I found was a site suggesting to have a writeable %TEMP%, but I couldn't get this to work either. I put it directly on C:, but maybe it should go somewhere else? So, does anyone have experience with this problem? I'm very grateful for any help, and it's not a huge issue if this is not solvable. It would be convenient, but not urgent in any way. Oh well, big thanks for any help! /Walker
/Walker Boh
Posted: 3/17/2010 9:59 AM
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Dromiceius
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Walker Boh wrote:
this didn't work either. Unless of course I did it wrong? I just simply tried to run it in the Start -> Search field since I couldn't come up with anything else to do it.
Sounds like you want the run dialog. Maybe they're the same thing? I only know XP. :/ Try pressing winkey+r and inputting the command there, making sure to give it the absolute path to the msi. Failing that, my intuition says that the virtualized harddrive is somehow confusing the installer. Have you tried increasing or decreasing its available space? Trying some different runtime/config options?
Posted: 3/17/2010 10:18 AM
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Walker_Boh
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I have not tried to alter the VPC:s available space, altough I'm fairly sure it should be enough to install TortoiseSVN. I can try this! What runtime/config options do you mean? I can't see anything out of the ordinary here either I'm afraid. But this is definately something I can poke around with. And lastly: Running "msiexec.exe /package MSIPackageName.msi /qr " via the command prompt gave the same error message as in Start -> search field (should be the same really). It says "The installation package could not be opened. Verify that the package exists and that you can access it...." Well, thank you very much for trying at least! Much appreciated!
/Walker Boh
Posted: 3/17/2010 10:38 AM
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Dromiceius
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Walker Boh wrote:
And lastly: Running "msiexec.exe /package MSIPackageName.msi /qr " via the command prompt gave the same error message as in Start -> search field (should be the same really). It says "The installation package could not be opened. Verify that the package exists and that you can access it...."
Wait, is that literally the command you ran? That would explain why it didn't find the package... I'm pretty sure you're supposed to run something like this: msiexec.exe /package c:\windowsy junk\tortoisesvn-versionsprobablygohere.msi /qr As for the config stuff, I was just speculating. I don't have much experience with VMs, but they tend to have slews of configuration options, including compatibility settings and fault-tolerance... uh, if you're lucky, I guess. ;)
Posted: 3/17/2010 11:18 AM
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arflech
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I thought TortoiseSVN was the only SVN package you needed...
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Posted: 3/17/2010 12:24 PM
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Walker_Boh
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arflech wrote:
I thought TortoiseSVN was the only SVN package you needed...
Might as well be as far as I know, but the problem with installing it still remains. And Dromiceius, yes, that was the command I used. Your interpretation sounds a lot better though. I'll try that asap (got some other stuff I need to attend to) and report back afterwards. Thanks!
/Walker Boh
Posted: 3/17/2010 12:54 PM
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Allright! Turns out you were exactly right Dromiceius! By actually typing in the right thing, i.e: C:\Users\my user>msiexec.exe C:\package C:\Users\my user\Downloads TortoiseSVN-1. 6.7.18415-win32-svn-1.6.9.msi /qr something actually happend! I got a window with commands I can use. Awesome! Now I just need to figure out how to use said commands and then perhaps this will work as intended! Big thanks again for the help! And yes, you may point and laugh a bit, but I still concider it to be too much magic to care that much :) Lousy computers.
/Walker Boh
Posted: 3/18/2010 7:05 AM
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Walker_Boh
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This morning I managed to solve the install problem! I just moved the install file to C:\Users\My user\ and ran this exact command from a command prompt: C:\Users\My user>msiexec.exe /package TortoiseSVN-1.6.7.18415-win32-svn-1.6.9.msi /qr What I missed before, and don't ask how, was the actual name of the .msi-file. Well, once you know it's fairly simple. Big thanks for the help Dromiceius! I wouldn't have spotted this otherwise.
/Walker Boh