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lent wrote:
> 
> 
> On the "semi-broken installation": 
> Actually, the problem was that the "whatever vital job" that
> /etc/postinstall/gnuplot.sh was doing
> never completed.  30 minutes of wait time by multiple Vista users on
> multiple brands of spanking new
> laptops indicates some sort of interaction bug of these shell scripts (or
> the programs they run) with the "wonders" of Vista. 
> 
> This "hang at 99% forever" symptom persists even with setting the
> Properties of
> setup.exe to run in "Windows XP(SP2)" compatibility mode. 
> 
> It's a very disappointing installation experience for novice programmers.
> 
> Our XP and Windows 2000 users do not have these problems as setup.exe
> completes just fine.
> 
> Thanks again for your attention to this annoying bug.
> Chris Lent
> 
> 


Actually I'm having this same problem right now with good ol' Windows XP. 
If it doesn't hang in /etc/postinstall/update-info-dir.sh, it hangs
somewhere else.  I've walked away and let it run for hours.

There's something wrong with the scripts.  And this is three months later.

-Q
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