"InstallScript Engine is missing" - HUH?

[a06lp]

Ok, just finished my lastest real-world test.

Everything went fine, except for one problem.

When installing my LimeWire 4.2.6 (using a MSI), I get the following error:

"The InstallScript Engine is missing from this machine.  If available, please run is script.msi, or contact your support personnel for further assistance."

Does anyone know what is causing this error, and how would I fix it?

I install LimeWire using this code:

msiexec.exe /qb /i %cdrom%\\Applications\\limewire\\LimeWirePro426.msi

Also, FYI, I call a installed a number of other MSI's without problem.

Also, FYI, I uninstalled LimeWire and reinstalled it using the above installation code (before I reformatted), and it WORKED. so it's not the msi itself. however, it did NOT work following my latest format/clean-installation...

what's going on?

[a06lp]

anyone else ever have this prob?

[staples]

look to see if included in the install there is a iiscript.msi. If there is install that first. then you can install your other msi but add the following to the msi install line "iisetupdriven=true" without the quotes.

[a06lp]

i dont know what you mean.

i have previously used this msi and it worked fine. only now, following a clean install do i have this problem.

the install is just an msi, nothing else is included.

[bucketbuster]

Maybe this helps:

http://www.winway.com/Main3/support/Resume...iptMissing.aspx

[a06lp]

Maybe this helps:

http://www.winway.com/Main3/support/Resume...iptMissing.aspx

i downloaded the file from that site "ISScript8.Msi".

I ran it, and then tried installing limewirepro.msi, still the same error.

i tried putting it in the same dir as limewirepro, same error.

i tried renaming it to "ISScript.Msi", same error.

what now?

[edit]

also, i'd like to know why this is the only program with this problem?

[bucketbuster]

Have you tried another version of Limewire?

[a06lp]

the version i am using is an msi edited by someone (i forgot who) so that it is truly silent. the standard limewire is not silent, hence the need for this...

[edit]

found the original post: here

this is the guy who gave me the msi.

Edited January 9, 2005 by a06lp

[vcBlackBox]

anyone else ever have this prob?

Not this particular problem, but a very similiar problem just happen to me when I tried to install Creative THX Console which uses Installshield.

It complained about the InstallShield Engine (iKernel.exe) could not be installed. The system cannot find the file specified.

It worked earlier in my UA cd but because I tried to move it closer to the beginning of the install process, it didn't work anymore. Before I was installing it after Kerio Personal Firewall which happens to have a version of the IsScript engine.

I think you need to get the latest version of the IsScript engine and have it install before you install the Limewire MSI.

You can try this link

Maybe that will fix your problem.

[a06lp]

if anyone else has this problem, the solution was, indeed, to install "isscript.msi" first. (although, the right version is needed. )

thanks for all your help.