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2008/8/12 Douglas B Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

>
Hi,

I have downloaded OpenOffice
(x2 times) and when I go to
install it gives Internal
Error 2731.0 and will not
proceed.

Regards,

Doug Smith
<snipped personal details>
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Googling "Internal error 2731" found many entries. The most interesting of
the few I looked at was
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372835.aspx which gives a list of
the error codes generated by the Windows Installer. Scrolling down to the
entry for 2731 led to
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368050(VS.85).aspx which talks
about Cost Initialisiation and this in turn led to
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368593(VS.85).aspx about File
Costing which is "the process of determining the total disk space
requirements for an installation"

Basically it would appear that you don't have enough space to install the
software on the disk you chose (C drive?). The System Requirements part of
the Installation Instructions for OpenOffice.org say "At least 800 Mbytes
available disk space for a default install (including a JRE) via download.
After installation and deletion of temporary installation files,
OpenOffice.org will use approximately 440 Mbytes disk space."

On a secondary point: I don't know why but your original message arrived as
a blank e-mail with two identical attachments. Each attachment contained the
text of your message. For reasons of security the software that manages the
message traffic on this list normally strips attachments so you would be
well advised not to send messages like this in the future. Instead, please
just type your message into the e-mail. If you want to show "exhibits"
please upload them to a web site somewhere and provide the appropriate
link(s).


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