JDK 5.0 Installation Failure

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Description:
JDK 5.0 installation failes on Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Edition in the following scenario:

(1) Install JDK 5.0 using the online multilanguage installation file.
(2) Due to unknow reason, the online installation program complains that ‘Due to network error, some files couldn’t be installed.’
(3) The installation program finishes.
(4) At this point, the installed JDK 5.0 can’t be uninstalled. Saying that ‘Some DLL is missing which is required for unsinstallation.’, uninstaller does not work.
(5) Trying to install JDK 5.0 using offline multilanguage installation file does not solve the problem because the installer complains about ‘already installed JDK exists.’

What the JDK 5.0 installer should have is a ‘force-installation’ option which forces a JDK 5.0 installation regardless of existing JDK.

Justification:
There are some people who are grumbling over lack of the ‘force-installation’ option at forum of java.sun.com. Without the force option, there are no way to install JDK in my situation than to format Windows OS.

Workaround:
No workaround.

Severity:
Can not make any progress until this bug is resolved.

Your Name:
Minkoo Seo

Sun Online Account ID:
pool007

This makes me crazy…
Hope they provide a force option.

Comments

2 responses to “JDK 5.0 Installation Failure”

  1. 민구 Avatar
    민구

    Workaround 찾음. regedit로 J2SE 를 Windows Installer 폴더 근처에서 찾아서 지운다. -_-;

  2. 민구 Avatar
    민구

    이 문제 SUN에서 bug database 에 등록해주었어여..

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