Re: Install Postgresql on Win2000 with Admin Rights

Hello Craig and Magnus,

thanks for your Help. I downloaded MSVCR80.DLL, but still the same
problems:

When I simply start init_db from within the bin folder I get the
Message, that he can't find libintl3.dll. The errormessage shows the
PATH, and this path contains the bin Folder...

When I copy libintl3.dll and libiconv2.dll to the system32 folder, I
get the Error, that the applcattion could not get initilaized.

Seams to be an odd problem.

Thanks for your Help,
Stefan Sturm

Am 25.03.2008 um 12:17 schrieb Craig Ringer:

> Stefan Sturm wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>>> If you can do that, you obviously have admin rights, so why not
>>> just use the MSI installer?
>>
>> When I try to run the Intaller, I get this Message: "The
>> Systemadminitrator guidelines issued in order to prevent this
>> installation".
> Have you upgraded the Windows Installer engine?
>
> Do you have domain or local group policy in place that might be
> blocking msi installations?
>
> Have you examined your event log for more information?
>
> Have you gone digging with filemon to see what's *really* going on?
>>> That said, this often happens if you have an incorrect version of
>>> the MSVC runtime on your system. See the README file in the
>>> download directory.
>>
>> I can't istall the runtime, because I can't run the MSI installer.
>> The same problem :-(
>
> The MSVC runtime linked to by the README:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=200b2fd9-ae1a-4a14-984d-389c36f85647&DisplayLang=en
>
> is supported for installation on win2k. It'll require admin access
> to install, though. Since that's no good for you, you might be able
> to bundle the required vc2008 runtime DLL(s) in the postgresql
> executable directory. I've done this for my own apps without
> problems, but it's possible that if Pg is specifically compiled to
> use WinSxS it might not work.
>
> Using Dependency Walker (depends.exe) I can see that my standard
> (MSI install) 8.3 binaries want MSVCR80.DLL . They're finding it in
> my WinSxS directory on my Vista box. It's not at all difficult to
> either pull MSVCR80.DLL from a machine that already has the file or
> download it off the 'net. If you put it in the pg bin directory it
> *should* work, though I don't know enough about the details of
> Windows DLL registration etc to be sure that's safe.
>
> In other words: Try dropping a copy of MSVCR80.DLL into the bin
> directory of the non-MSI postgresql zip file and see how you go.
>
> --
> Craig Ringer