Issue 901 in tesseract-ocr: Installation fails (WIN XP) due to Registry settings

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New issue 901 by till.b...@gmail.com: Installation fails (WIN XP) due to
Registry settings
http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/issues/detail?id=901

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Download Win Installer from
https://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/downloads/detail?name=tesseract-ocr-setup-3.02.02.exe&can=2&q=
2. Install with default options


What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Complete Install is expected, but it freezes after reporting "Appending to
PATH". Tesseract seems to be half installed. Reinstall asks to deinstall
the old version first. Deinstallation freezes on the same action.

Installation without the component "Registry settings" works just fine.


What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
tesseract 3.02.02
Win XP Professional SP3, German language


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Comment #1 on issue 901 by zde...@gmail.com: Installation fails (WIN XP)

due to Registry settings
http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/issues/detail?id=901

Unfortunately I can not reproduce it.

Are you sure you have rights to modified windows registry?
Is there running some kind of security program that is blocking other
program to modify windows registry?

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Comment #2 on issue 901 by kzhv...@gmail.com: Installation fails (WIN XP)

due to Registry settings
http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/issues/detail?id=901

Same here, vanilla Win7 x64, no UAC, stuck at PATH on
install/uninstall/reinstall.

Attachments:
tesseract.png 286 KB

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Comment #3 on issue 901 by till.b...@gmail.com: Installation fails (WIN XP)

due to Registry settings
http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/issues/detail?id=901

Yes, I am logged in as an Administrator. Only a simple anti virus program
is installed - no further security programs.

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Comment #4 on issue 901 by thedarkb...@gmail.com: Installation fails (WIN

XP) due to Registry settings
http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/issues/detail?id=901

I am experiencing the same issue - only running Microsoft secuirty. No
third party antivirus.

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Comment #5 on issue 901 by djidji...@gmail.com: Installation fails (WIN XP)

due to Registry settings
http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/issues/detail?id=901

Trying to install on Win-XP-SP3. There was a very long wait (about 15min)
after

Setting PATH to X:\YYYY\Tesseract at HKCU
Target was appended to PATH

then

Setting TESSDATA_PREFIX at HKCU
TESSDATA_PREFIX was empty and has been updated with the target

then again a long wait and the install completed.

But the download of extra language files failed, could be due to the
firewall but the connection was approved/allowed.

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Updates:
Labels: Component-Scripts OpSys-Windows Type-Defect

Comment #6 on issue 901 by zde...@gmail.com: Installation fails (WIN XP)

due to Registry settings
http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/issues/detail?id=901

Installer is created by NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)[1].
Script used for building installer is in svn[2].

It should not used anything non-standard. My problem is that I can not
reproduce problem and therefore to test it.

Feel free to improve this installation script.

[1] http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Main_Page
[2]
https://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/source/browse/trunk/vs2008/tesseract-3.02.02.nsi?&r=815

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Comment #7 on issue 901 by boris.gl...@gmail.com: Installation fails (WIN

XP) due to Registry settings
http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/issues/detail?id=901

I hadn't have this problem on Win XP Professional SP2 (not SP3!) four
months ago.

But now I have got the same issue on Win7 Ultimate 64bit (as
Administrator), whether
are firewall (Comodo) and antivirus suspended or not.

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Comment #8 on issue 901 by boris.gl...@gmail.com: Installation fails (WIN

XP) due to Registry settings
http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/issues/detail?id=901

I hadn't have this problem on Win 7 Home x64 four months ago.

But now I have got the same issue on Win7 Ultimate x64 (as Administrator),
whether
are firewall and antivirus suspended or not.

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Comment #9 on issue 901 by mich...@fireside21.com: Installation fails (WIN

XP) due to Registry settings
http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/issues/detail?id=901

In response to #5:

I ran into this problem about a month ago. I tried waiting for ~45 minutes
with no luck, but leaving the installer running overnight seemed to work.

Alternatively, you can run the installer until it hangs, kill the
installer, pull up the .nsi script from comment #6, and do the rest of the
tasks by hand. (e.g. set the TESSDATA_PREFIX)

I hope this helps someone.

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Comment #10 on issue 901 by zde...@gmail.com: Installation fails (WIN XP)
due to Registry settings
https://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/issues/detail?id=901

Can you please check the length of your path variable?
Maybe this error is related to EnvVarUpdate nsis macro
[1]
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Environmental_Variables:_append,_prepend,_and_remove_entries