Bad installer?

[Lavacano Volblaster]

Does anyone still have installer 0.8.4? It took a bit of work, but I got 
that to run acceptably.

Vijay Avarachen wrote:
> Kushal,
>       I had a very similar experience.  After the installation hung 
> the first time, I attempted to restart it but although the process 
> would show up in the running processes window, I did not see any GUI 
> window.  Finally I logged in as a different user and attempted to 
> install and the installation GUI window showed up, which indicated to 
> me that the installer wrote something in the users profile that was 
> causing the issue.  Kde-windows IRC channel confirmed this. 
>
> Regardless the installation never seems to "finish".  I waited for 
> along time and after noticing that there was no significant hard disk 
> activity, I canceled the installation.
>
> My installation root was c:\kde and I was able to go to c:\kde\bin and 
> run few of the applications like konqueror, dolphin.  There definitely 
> seems to be a bug plaguing the installer, and i'll try to troubleshoot 
> it further once I have some time.
>
> Vijay Avarachen
>
> On Jan 24, 2008 1:07 AM, Kushal Das <kushaldas at gmail.com 
> <mailto:kushaldas at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Wednesday 23 January 2008 10:30:18 am Lavacano Volblaster wrote:
>     > Hello.
>     >
>     > Recently I reinstalled XP on the XP box (falling apart at the seams
>     > again, that's Microsoft for you.), and downloaded KDE Windows
>     install
>     > 0.8.5. I tried to install with it, and it went psycho.
>     >
>     > First it hung whilst installing a package. Then when I killed the
>     > process and tried again from where it left off, it refused to do
>     > anything but let me click cancel. I discovered a few weeks after
>     that
>     > though I clicked cancel and (supposedly) terminated the install, it
>     > remained a running process.
>     For me, everything installed properly, but I can not run anything :(
>
>     Kushal
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