[Kmymoney-devel] Re: [Kmymoney] Installing KMM4 on Windows 7 under Boot Camp.

[Alvaro Soliverez]

(Replyingf to the list, as there are more experienced people there)
Cristian,
I think I've seen this error before. Any idea how to get more info or
what to do from here?



Regards,
Alvaro

On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Ron <ron at price4us.co.uk> wrote:
> Hello Alvaro,
> First of all I'd like to thank you for replying to me so soon, a big
> thanks...
> First let me explain that I'm not very clever so please be patient with me
> and I'll try to explain..
> I'm running both Mac OSx Snow Leopard and Windows 7 on the same Intel/Mac
> machine (Windows is running under Mac's Boot Camp very successfully on a
> separate partition (not a virtual machine))..
> On the Mac side I already run KDE3 and KmyMoney 1.0.5 using MacPorts very
> successfully, I have tried to update to KDE4 and KMM4 but I can't figure out
> how to "remove" KDE3/KMM1 before installing KDE4 and KMM4....  (I've been
> advised that I will have to COMPLETELY remove KDE3 and KMM1 before
> attempting to install the newer versions.
> I have tried this but I get many conflicts, and NO SUCCESS......
> The other option, but I can't figure out how to do it is to create Alias's,
> running each version under separate Alias's.
> IDEALLY I would like to remove KDE3 and KMM1 and replace it with KDE4 and
> KMM4..
>
> It was only by accident that I realised that you had brought out a Windows
> installer version which would be much easier for me to initiate.
> To trial this I first downloaded the KMM4 installer to my wife's older PC
> running Windows XP Professional and SP3, this worked fine and although a
> couple of "warning" messages appeared in the latter stages of the install
> everything seems to work as expected although the old problem of Date Format
> still exists because KMM4 still does not pick up the default Time Zone from
> the PC system files.....(as do all other Windows programs)..
>
> On the result of this I attempted to install KMM4 on the Windows 7 side of
> my Mac WITH THE FOLLOWING RESULTS.......
>
> Launch KDE kmymoney Installer..
> System Check (Big Green Tick)
> Repository Check (Big Green Tick)
> Download (Big Green Tick)  "I'm installing to C:\Program
> Files/KDE-vc90-stable-latest"
>                                             "I'm using no proxy"
>                                             "I'm fetching packages from
> http://www.winkde.org/pub/kde/ports/win32/releases/stable/latest"
>                                             "I will download up to 39
> package(s) depending on what has been downloaded earlier"
>                                             "I'm downloading package(s)"
>                                             "I'm installing 39 package(s)"
> Installation (Big Red No Sign)".........installation failed"
>
> In the bottom left hand corner text written "Version 1.0 beta 2 - created by
> Ralf Habacker"
>
> That's it............that's what happens......it just halts at that
> point.............no other messages or errors
>
> Sorry that I can't give any other information than above............that's
> all that happens..
> Best Regards,
> Ron....
>
>> Hello Ron,
>> We'd appreciate it if you can send some more details about the
>> error. It is certainly not a standard install, but perhaps
>> something can be done.
>>
>> Also, have you tried the OS X version? It sounds easier than
>> running under a virtual machine.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Alvaro
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Ron <ron at price4us.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> I have two computers in my home, one of which is a standard PC
>>> which my wife uses and runs Windows XP Pro SP3 and one I use
>>> which is an iMac running OSx 10.6.5 where I run Windows 7 under
>>> Boot Camp.
>>>
>>> Why is it that KmyMoney 4 for Windows downloads and installs
>>> perfectly OK under Windows XP on my wife's PC.. ?? but.....
>>> On on my iMac running Boot Camp and Windows 7 it will download
>>> all the files successfully but fails at the install stage every
>>> time ??
>>>
>>> Any advice will be greatly appreciated....
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Ron.
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>>>
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