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Offline General Battuta

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Installer has following issues
on: December 14, 2010, 09:10:11 am
Works/barebones selection screen still says 3.6.10 instead of 3.6.12.

If I select barebones (presumably any other option as well), it tells me the 3.6.10 Executables cannot be found; this would alarm new users.

Once I get past those warnings, it stays on a blank screen with '0%' at the bottom until I hit 'next', at which point it downloads a bunch of text files, including sections that mention the 3.6.12 executables. But I see no sign of them anywhere on my hard drive.

What's going on with the Barebones option? What are these text files? (They have names like ransomarceihn.txt, blueplanet.txt, so on). Why does it install only them, but not the executables?

Selecting 3.6.10 with MediaVPs gives warnings about not being able to find the 3.6.10 executables or MVPs, then does the same thing...is this an issue on my end? Could my firewall be causing trouble?



 

Offline karajorma

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Re: Installer has following issues
Reply #1 on: December 14, 2010, 10:48:19 am
While we're on about issues, if you can't connect to Sectorgames the installer craps out on you. Presumably the same is true for any site it can't download the text files it wants from.
Karajorma's Freespace FAQ. It's almost like asking me yourself.

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Re: Installer has following issues
Reply #2 on: December 14, 2010, 11:49:08 am
Hurff.  I shall see about expediting a rerelease.
 

Offline General Battuta

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Re: Installer has following issues
Reply #3 on: December 14, 2010, 11:50:36 am
Well can anyone confirm my issues? Because I just plain can't get the installer to work. It downloads text files, that's it.
 

Offline Luis Dias

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Re: Installer has following issues
Reply #4 on: December 23, 2010, 09:07:54 am
I can confirm it. I tried to install fs2 the other night and used barebones to do it (actually I chose them all), and all it did was download a bunch of nano files, and failed to install the rest. I wasn't that desperate for the game, so I just quit the process and went on to do smth else :(.
 

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Re: Installer has following issues
Reply #5 on: December 26, 2010, 10:24:12 pm
Quote from: Luis Dias on December 23, 2010, 09:07:54 am
I can confirm it. I tried to install fs2 the other night and used barebones to do it (actually I chose them all), and all it did was download a bunch of nano files, and failed to install the rest. I wasn't that desperate for the game, so I just quit the process and went on to do smth else :(.
The installer has had issues for a long time.  Best way to do it is to manually install the MediaVPs, Launcher, and Builds.
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Offline General Battuta

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Re: Installer has following issues
Reply #6 on: December 27, 2010, 12:33:53 am
No, the installer was working perfectly and is the best hope we have for getting people to install FSO because manual install should never be required. It needs to get fixed or replaced.
 

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Re: Installer has following issues
Reply #7 on: December 27, 2010, 12:42:11 am
Quote from: General Battuta on December 27, 2010, 12:33:53 am
No, the installer was working perfectly
It was? When? For how long? Days? Weeks?

Quote from: General Battuta on December 27, 2010, 12:33:53 am
the installer... is the best hope we have for getting people to install FSO
I agree with you. In theory. In theory, communism works. In theory.
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23:40 < achillion > wait no
23:40 < achillion > evilbagel: ass
23:40 < EveningTea > ?
23:40 < achillion > 2-letter tab complete failure

14:08 < achillion > there's too much talk of butts and dongs in here
14:08 < achillion > the level of discourse has really plummeted
14:08 < achillion > Let's talk about politics instead
14:08 <@The_E > butts and dongs are part of #hard-light's brand now
14:08 <@The_E > well
14:08 <@The_E > EvilBagel's brand, at least

01:06 < T-Rog > welp
01:07 < T-Rog > I've got to take some very strong antibiotics
01:07 < achillion > penis infection?
01:08 < T-Rog > Chlamydia
01:08 < achillion > O.o
01:09 < achillion > well
01:09 < achillion > I guess that happens
01:09 < T-Rog > at least it's curable
01:09 < achillion > yeah
01:10 < T-Rog > I take it you weren't actually expecting it to be a penis infection
01:10 < achillion > I was not

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14:05 < achillion > until stuff explodes
14:05 < achillion > then you start thinking about it

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15:41 <-INFO > EveningTea [[email protected]] has joined #hard-light
15:47 < EvilBagel> butt
15:51 < Achillion> yes
15:53 <-INFO > EveningTea [[email protected]] has quit [Quit: http://www.mibbit.com ajax IRC Client]

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11:50 < achtung> Surely you've heard of DVDA
11:50 < achtung> Double Vaginal Double ANal
11:51 < Kobrar> ...
11:51 <-INFO > Kobrar [[email protected]] has left #hard-light []
 

Offline Goober5000

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Re: Installer has following issues
Reply #8 on: December 27, 2010, 02:03:54 am
It's getting fixed.  Please stand by...
 

Offline General Battuta

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Re: Installer has following issues
Reply #9 on: December 27, 2010, 08:14:13 am
Quote from: Jeff Vader on December 27, 2010, 12:42:11 am
Quote from: General Battuta on December 27, 2010, 12:33:53 am
No, the installer was working perfectly
It was? When? For how long? Days? Weeks?

months

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Quote from: General Battuta on December 27, 2010, 12:33:53 am
the installer... is the best hope we have for getting people to install FSO
I agree with you. In theory. In theory, communism works. In theory.
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communism has never worked. installers work all the time. we need an installer. we do not need communism.
 

Offline Jeff Vader

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Re: Installer has following issues
Reply #10 on: December 27, 2010, 12:17:30 pm
Quote from: General Battuta on December 27, 2010, 08:14:13 am
installers work all the time.
And this thread is a testament to that statement.
23:40 < achillion > EveningTea: ass
23:40 < achillion > wait no
23:40 < achillion > evilbagel: ass
23:40 < EveningTea > ?
23:40 < achillion > 2-letter tab complete failure

14:08 < achillion > there's too much talk of butts and dongs in here
14:08 < achillion > the level of discourse has really plummeted
14:08 < achillion > Let's talk about politics instead
14:08 <@The_E > butts and dongs are part of #hard-light's brand now
14:08 <@The_E > well
14:08 <@The_E > EvilBagel's brand, at least

01:06 < T-Rog > welp
01:07 < T-Rog > I've got to take some very strong antibiotics
01:07 < achillion > penis infection?
01:08 < T-Rog > Chlamydia
01:08 < achillion > O.o
01:09 < achillion > well
01:09 < achillion > I guess that happens
01:09 < T-Rog > at least it's curable
01:09 < achillion > yeah
01:10 < T-Rog > I take it you weren't actually expecting it to be a penis infection
01:10 < achillion > I was not

14:04 < achillion > Sometimes the way to simplify is to just have a habit and not think about it too much
14:05 < achillion > until stuff explodes
14:05 < achillion > then you start thinking about it

22:16 < T-Rog > I don't know how my gf would feel about Jewish conspiracy porn

15:41 <-INFO > EveningTea [[email protected]] has joined #hard-light
15:47 < EvilBagel> butt
15:51 < Achillion> yes
15:53 <-INFO > EveningTea [[email protected]] has quit [Quit: http://www.mibbit.com ajax IRC Client]

18:53 < Achillion> Dicks are fun

21:41 < MatthTheGeek> you can't spell assassin without two asses

20:05 < sigtau> i'm mining titcoins from now on

00:31 < oldlaptop> Drunken antisocial educated freezing hicks with good Internet == Finland stereotype

11:46 <-INFO > Kobrar [[email protected]] has joined #hard-light
11:50 < achtung> Surely you've heard of DVDA
11:50 < achtung> Double Vaginal Double ANal
11:51 < Kobrar> ...
11:51 <-INFO > Kobrar [[email protected]] has left #hard-light []
 

Offline General Battuta

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Re: Installer has following issues
Reply #11 on: December 27, 2010, 12:33:46 pm
Quote from: Jeff Vader on December 27, 2010, 12:17:30 pm
Quote from: General Battuta on December 27, 2010, 08:14:13 am
installers work all the time.
And this thread is a testament to that statement.

no, this thread is a testament to the fact that our installer doesn't work right now
 

Offline Zacam

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Re: Installer has following issues
Reply #12 on: December 27, 2010, 05:32:50 pm
No, it does work. It works very well. What it doesn't do is handle exceptions, failures, or people fat-finger typo'ing or not paying attention to case sensitivity or mirroring their files or updating their installer txt files.

It does EXACTLY what it is told to do and if it is told to do stupid, it will unfailing DO stupid every single time.

If a mods mirror suddenly disappears and the content is just NOT available for downloading and the maintainer of the file that tells the installer to go there and get it (when it can't) either can't be found or can't be arsed to fix that over sight, it is NOT the Installers fault. So _please_ stop ragging on the damn installer already.
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Offline Luis Dias

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Re: Installer has following issues
Reply #13 on: December 27, 2010, 10:41:55 pm
Quote from: Zacam on December 27, 2010, 05:32:50 pm
No, it does work. It works very well. What it doesn't do is handle exceptions, failures, or people fat-finger typo'ing or not paying attention to case sensitivity or mirroring their files or updating their installer txt files.

It does EXACTLY what it is told to do and if it is told to do stupid, it will unfailing DO stupid every single time.

If a mods mirror suddenly disappears and the content is just NOT available for downloading and the maintainer of the file that tells the installer to go there and get it (when it can't) either can't be found or can't be arsed to fix that over sight, it is NOT the Installers fault. So _please_ stop ragging on the damn installer already.

Well I don't mind people blaming my stupidity, but are you sure no one else will?
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