[Qgis-community-team] Windows installation instructions

[Alister Hood]

Thanks Tim, and sorry about the lag responding.
I found a machine with a cleanish Windows install (without those 
particular dlls), and it worked OK on that.  But I remember having 
the same problem as him on one machine, with 1.5, so it seems 
something strange is happening in some circumstances.

Reporting a bug won't help much if we don't know exactly 
what circumstances.
Maybe it is still worth having something on the download page to
point people in the right direction if they do have this problem.

Regards,
Alister


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Sutton [mailto:lists at linfiniti.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, 17 November 2010 9:34 p.m.
> To: Alister Hood
> Cc: qgis-community-team at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [Qgis-community-team] Windows installation instructions
> 
> Hi
> 
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 1:54 AM, Alister Hood
> <alister.hood at synergine.com> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> > This could be thought of as either a packaging or a documentation
> issue:
> >
> > We just had someone on the Australia/NZ osgeo list having problems
> > installing and running QGIS on Windows.  Eventually he found this
> forum
> > thread, which has the solution:
> >
> http://forum.qgis.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4861&p=8250&hilit=initialize+
> p
> > roperly#p8250
> > The solution is to install the "Microsoft Runtime C++ SP1 package
> 2005"
> > - it needs to be SP1 and it needs to be 2005.
> >
> > I think there should be something in the user manual or on the
> download
> > page about this.  I actually thought there used to be, but there
> doesn't
> > seem to be now.  Can it be added?
> >
> 
> This was a requirement for QGIS < 1.5 but with the new standalone
> installer should no longer be required. If it is, its a bug and should
> be file on trac. Older versions did have the mscv runtime fix
> documented on the download page.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Tim
> 
> 
> > Regards,
> > Alister
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