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pospiech
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I am using Windows 7 with the latest kde-windows installer. Everything is correct, until the installer presents the list of applications.

with is EMPTY.

It downloads some list of packages of 3.5 MB from somewhere before.

Any hints to get it working?

By the way: it wants to install to the current directory of the installer instead to "Program Files" with is strange or a bug.

Matthias


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The install issue is more or less known :/ , the issue about the missing package list is probably that you either choose mingw as a compiler (which has been discontinued and just is there for historical reasons) or that the mirror you chose has no packages at all (you could choose another mirror to check if that is the case).
There is no direct way to update an old mingw installation to mingw4, so in that case you must reinstall KDE. If you chose mingw yourself, simply use mingw4 instead.


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The system is a fresh installed win7, so there was no kde before.
About the mirror, as far as I remember I had no option to choose one. But I will check that when I reboot into the win7 system. As compiler I had chosen msvc.

EDIT:
After choosing a different source it works.

Last edited by pospiech on Tue Dec 29, 2009 12:16 pm, edited 1 time in total.


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Hm, that could be a mirror issue then - please disable the end user mode then and choose msvc as a compiler & a mirror of your choice - very likely a mirror near you will have no packages then (you don't need to check out all mirrors to find that one though). If you need to find a mirror that definitely works, there is winkde in Europe/Germany which definitely should work.


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I'm Chinese, I had the same problem, finally I found I should set both the install path and download path not including Chinese and fix it. Aha!
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I had that same problem myself, until I realized that my internet security software (VIPRE) has deemed winkde.org harmful, so I added it to the bad sites exception and bam, that fixed it for me.


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