First of all, I tried to remove all installations from the control panel.
> Install the Microsoft Installer SDK from microsoft.com.
Done. I found version 1.1 on the microsoft site... even though it's quite old.
> Use the msispy program to check for pgAdmin MSI installations.
It didn't show anything.
So I reinstalled from the msi, and now it showed.
If I selected the "diagnostic mode" of msispy it showed that three files didn't record as being correctly installed (I
foundthem by using the verify files button in the properties). It said "some files modified or missing" for each of
thesethree files:
libintl-2.dll
filesize=32256
md5=4A8C80797E3D34EC6F8D284418F13870
time stamp: april 27, 2004 8:45:24
libiconv-2.dll
filesize=916849
md5=3F9709EE6259FB35220A417504A1DC9F
time stamp: january 31, 2003 17:41:30
pg_restore.exe
filesize=185274
md5=9E7B182A0FDC50C510AA7958EB126F92
time stamp: november 4, 2004 9:34:44
(internally it identifies as 8.0.0beta4)
File size and all other information comes from the actual files on my hard disk. So it seems I have the right files...
If I try to reinstall individually each of these files from msispy (while in the "view installed producs" mode), it
triesto pull them from the MS Office 2000 cd!
If I try after using "view Windows Installer Package" and opening pgadmin3.msi, it gets the files from the correct
source,installs them, and then nothing changes.
Anyway, whenever I start PGadmin III RC2, it says it is completing the installation.
I couldn't find any of the guids of these three files in my registry!
> Use msizap to kill *all* those entries using the guid(s) found
> in msispy. Then reinstall pgAdmin.
After doing a clean uninstall there wasn't anything left for msizap to kill.
I'll try installing the release version, and I hope somehow its MSI works better.
Gino Lucrezi
Penta Consulting Services