Monday, November 26, 2012

Installing Python on Windows Vista

I'm trying to install Python 2.7 on my Windows Vista machine so I can use it with Google App Engine to do some HTML5 app coding.  I run into the following error:

Problem:
This installation package could not be opened. Verify that the package exists and that you can access it, or contact the application vendor to verify that this is a valid Windows Installer package

I had no problem downloading the MSI file, multiple times, so I know that isn't the problem.

Solution:
I was running this install/setup file from a mapped drive. Copy the MSI file into the c:\tmp or similar folder and run it from there.

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