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4/21/2006 3:24:05 PM    SQL 2005 Developer Installation SQLXML4 fails
I have tried from the ISO images downloaded from MSN and now I have a MSDN  
  
DVD, so I tried again.  The setup fails with the following:  
  
SQLXML4 -- Error 1706. An installation package for the product SQLXML4  
  
cannot be found. Try the installation again using a valid copy of the  
  
installation package 'sqlxml4.msi'.  
  
The file does exist in the ISO and DVD.  After that, the SQL server  
  
installation goes downhill with other items failing to install.  I tried to  
  
install the Client Tools and Samples and it fails at the same point.  
  
I have uninstalled everything, including SQL 2000.  I do have VS 2005  
  
installed.  
  
Any advice is much appreciated.  Stupid things like this can get really  
  
frustrating...



5/15/2006 1:08:53 PM    Re: SQL 2005 Developer Installation SQLXML4 fails
I found a solution (thanks to a email from Cameron Eckman).  First you  
  
have to know that SQL Server 2005 installs many separate things (at  
  
least 8) which you can see under "add/remove programs".  Some of which  
  
are obviously named but some are not (like SQLXML4 and MSXML 6.0  
  
Parser).  I clicked on SQLXML4, clicked "Change", chose "Repair", and  
  
pointed it to the SQLServer2005 installation disc.  That worked, and  
  
after that I ran setup.exe from the installation disk again, which also  
  
worked.  
  
It would also probably work to uninstall SQLXML4 first.  SQLXML4 seems  
  
to also be from the Visual Studio 2005 install, although I am not even  
  
sure why I have that, except I remember something about being prompted  
  
to install it the first time I tried to install the client tools 2  
  
weeks ago.