Thread: 8.0.x windows installer fails?

[Win XP Professional 2002, SP 1, Pentium 4, 1.4 GHz, 512MB RAM]
I'm trying to install postgres 8.0.4 on my windows machine.
I downloaded ftp.us.postgresql.org/pub/mirrors/postgresql/binary/v8.0.4/win32/postgresql-8.0.4.zip.
I then double-clicked the file "postgresql-8.0".
It says "Welcome to the PostgreSQL Installation Wizard...".
The default english language is ok, so...
I click the "Start" button, and immediately get a window labeled "Windows Installer" saying:

This installation package could not be opened.  Verify that the package exists adn that you can access it or contact
theappilcation vendor to verify that this is a valid Windows Installer package.
 

So I tried the analgous file from 8.0.3, with the same results.
What am I doing wrong?

-- George Young
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What would become of us if they were?" (CSL)

> [Win XP Professional 2002, SP 1, Pentium 4, 1.4 GHz, 512MB
> RAM] I'm trying to install postgres 8.0.4 on my windows machine.
> I downloaded
> ftp.us.postgresql.org/pub/mirrors/postgresql/binary/v8.0.4/win
> 32/postgresql-8.0.4.zip.
> I then double-clicked the file "postgresql-8.0".
> It says "Welcome to the PostgreSQL Installation Wizard...".
> The default english language is ok, so...
> I click the "Start" button, and immediately get a window
> labeled "Windows Installer" saying:
>
> This installation package could not be opened.  Verify that
> the package exists adn that you can access it or contact the
> appilcation vendor to verify that this is a valid Windows
> Installer package.
>
> So I tried the analgous file from 8.0.3, with the same results.
> What am I doing wrong?

You must uncompress the file first. If you just doubleclick inside the
ZIP file, it will only uncompress the file you doubleclicked on and not
the other MSI file also required.

Uncompress to a temp directory and doubleclick it from there.

//Magnus