Installer deletes nearly all components, reports successful installation #766
Description
If relevant, please answer to the following questions:
1. What version of Python(x,y) have you installed?
2.7.9.0
2. Which components have you installed (Python(x,y) installer:
componentpage):
a. Have you selected the "Recommended" component selection?
Initially selected and deselected some packages. On subsequent install
attempts, left the default (custom) selections and another time with
"Recommended." All approaches resulted in the unexpected behavior described
below.
3. Have you selected the option "Customize installation directories"?
b. No
Left the option to have everything installed in the base location.
5. Where did you install Python(x,y) itself?
b. custom path, which one?
As I am installing without administrative privileges, I have to install in a
custom path.
C:\Data_User\programs\pythonxy
6. Have you installed Python(x,y):
a. For "Current user only"
No administrative rights.
7. What is your operating system?
c. Windows 7
Enterprise
8. Is the operating system 64 bit?
b. No
9. When you installed Python(x,y), were you logged in as :
a. a regular user
10. If you are using Windows Vista/7, have you installed Python(x,y):
a. simply by double-clicking on the installer
11. Regarding installed software on your machine, how did you clean your
machine before installing Python(x,y) (multiple answers are possible):
Each of the following apply for one or the other attempt:
a. you didn't do anything, you installed Python(x,y) directly on your
machine without precaution
--> This is valid for the initial installation attempt.
b. you uninstalled any previous Python distribution (including the
official .msi)
d. you cleaned the environment variables by removing all deprecated
entries
--> see explanation below
Python did not exist on the machine prior to the initial install attempt.
Before each subsequent install, ran Uninstall.exe. In both cases the unexpected
behavior continues. Environment PATH does not contain Python directories after
uninstall. I did not find instructions for removing any deprecated environment
variables the uninstaller does not remove.
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Launch installer.
2. Leave components at Recommended and select installation folder.
3. Finish/install and watch ("Show details") installer delete nearly everything
it installs.
What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expect the installer to install all selected components and programs. Instead,
it installs and then deletes nearly every component, based on the output of the
installer dialogue (see below). One can also watch in a file browser during
installation as the executable files appear and disappear one after the other.
The following is an excerpt of the output (typed by hand, as it doesn't allow
copying the output) based on the "Recommended" option.
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Output folder: C:\Data_User\programs\pythonxy
Output folder: C:\Data_User\programs\pythonxy\icons
Extract: c++folder.ico
....
Output folder: C:\Data_User\programs\pythonxy
Extract: License-en.rtf
Extract: License-fr.rtf
Extract: vcredist_x86.exe
Installing: Visual C++ 2008 SP1 runtime
Delete file: vcredist_x86.exe
Output folder: C:\Data_User\programs\pythonxy\installers
Extract: python-2.7.9.msi
Installing: Python 2.7.9
Target was appended to PATH
Target was appended to PATH
Target was appended to PATH
Output folder: C:\Data_User\programs\pythonxy\installers
Extract: VCForPython27.msi
Installing: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 for Python
Output folder: C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages
Extract: xyinstall.py
Output folder: C:\Python27
Create folder: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start
Menu\Programs\Python(x,y)
....
Output folder: C:\Data_User\programs\pythonxy
Installing: Base Libraries
Delete file: C:\Data_User\programs\pythonxy\base_libraries-1.6.2-14_py27.exe
Output folder: C:\Data_User\programs\pythonxy
Installing: Base Python
Delete file: C:\Data_User\programs\pythonxy\base_python-1.10.0-32.exe
Output folder: C:\Data_User\programs\pythonxy
Installing: setuptools
Delete file: C:\Data_User\programs\pythonxy\setuptools-7.0-26_py27.exe
....
(Installs then deletes, in this order: requests, html5lib, Pip, PyCrypto, PyQt,
xydoc, xy, QtHelp, Spyder, PyQwt, MumPy, SciPy, numexpr, h5py, Pillow,
Pyreadline, pycparser, cffi, pyzmq, Torando, IPython, guidata, guiqwt,
Matplotlib, nose, formlayout, docutils, jinja2, pygments, Sphinx, ReportLab,
PyOpenGL, NetworkX, PyTables, vitables, Pywin32, pylint, wxPython, ply,
gnuplot, cx_Freeze, py2exe, pyparsing, Veusz, pandas, psutil, statsmodels,
SQLAlchemy, virtualenv, freeimage, PyICU, lxml, gevent, paramiko, Bottleneck,
mahotas, PycURL, Babel, BeautifulSoup4, patsy, pyyaml, astropy, blosc-python,
pyOpenSSL, PyAudio, Mako, pyasn1, grin, SciTE, and Console.)
....
Output folder: C:\Data_User\programs\pythonxy
Installing: Console
Delete file: C:\Data_User\programs\pythonxy\console-1.12.0.14282-11.exe
Delete file: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start
Menu\Programs\Python 2.7\IDLE (Python GUI).lnk
Delete file: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start
Menu\Programs\Python 2.7\Module Docs.lnk
Delete file: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start
Menu\Programs\Python 2.7\Python (command line).lnk
Delete file: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start
Menu\Programs\Python 2.7\Python Manuals.lnk
Delete file: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start
Menu\Programs\Python 2.7\Uninstall Python.lnk
Remove folder: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start
Menu\Programs\Python 2.7\
Completed
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After installing and then deleting the components, the installer claims "Setup
was completed successfully." Upon inspection, the content of the base install
folder is:
icons\*.ico (23 files)
installers\ (empty)
License-en.rtf
License-fr.rtf
Uninstall.exe (thankfully!)
C:\Python27 is populated with 3915 files in 120 folders with a size of 49.1 MB.
In short, since the installer merrily deletes every useful component as it is
installed, the installation effectively fails. Only IDLE, the Python
interpreter and help files are available in the start menu.
Original issue reported on code.google.com by mike.br...@gmail.com on 21 Feb 2015 at 6:25