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Python and Twisted on Windows – stupid installer

I’ve installed python-2.5.1.msi on Windows using power user rights (in german: Hauptbenutzerrechte) and it works fine:

Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Apr 18 2007, 08:51:08) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>

Ok, let’s take a look at Twisted (an event-driven networking engine written in Python). There even is a windows binary for Python 2.5 – great, so let’s use Twisted_NoDocs-2.5.0.win32-py2.5.exe. But the installer isn’t happy with my power user rights:

Screenshot: Python Twisted - Error message lacking admin rights

Sucking… anyway – so let’s run it with administrator rights:

Screenshot: Python Twisted - Error message python is not installed

OMFG…

This entry was posted by mika on Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007 at 15:42 and is filed under Computer, English, Rants. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

One Response to “Python and Twisted on Windows – stupid installer”

  1. Stefan Says:
    May 25th, 2007 at 11:26

    Had something similar yesterday on my Vista-Ultimate-Box:

    I wanted to install Delphi 7 but Vista said: “There are known Problems with this Application”.

    Some Google-Clicks later I found, that there was a Windows-Patch directly by M$, so I downloaded it and startet the Installation Procedure:

    “This Patch is not suitable for your Systems Architecture.”

    Mhh, but the Installation Documentation said: Suitable for Vista Ultimate 32bit.

    So I had a look at appwiz.cpl. And: The Patch was already installed.

    But why then the “known Problems with this Application”??

    Then after overriding this message, Delphi installed fine und runs now without visible problems.

    Stefan