[Qgis-community-team] Windows installation instructions

[Tim Sutton]

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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