Is SageTV v9 on Windows XP supported?

[glenner]

Has anyone successfully installed v9 on Windows XP (SP3 and up to date)?

I'm tried today to upgrade my backup system to V9. It was a Win XP setup running v6 that served me well for 7+ years. I upgraded to v7 no problem. Started V7 and it all looked good.

I then installed Sage v9.1.2.662. I'm got errors at the end of the install wizard.

Main error in log:

[17A8:1C40][2017-07-15T01:02:08]e000: Error 0x8007064d: Failed to install MSI package.
[17A8:1C40][2017-07-15T01:02:08]e000: Error 0x8007064d: Failed to execute MSI package.
[1744:1B3C][2017-07-15T01:02:08]e000: Error 0x8007064d: Failed to configure per-machine MSI package.

Here is the full log and screencap. Anyone got v9 to install and work on XP?

[BobPhoenix]

I'll test it out in a Windows XP VM this weekend.


Since additional posts after this indicate XP works I will not install XP and test.

[wnjj]

This guy did and looking at the bottom of the first post, he had to manually update the Windows installer service first.

https://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=64289

[xjim1]

I just finished upgrading my XPsp3 box from V6 to V9. But I updated the installer to 4.5, as wnjj pointed to, before starting.
Here's the Microsquish link:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/down...s.aspx?id=8483


Remember to reinstall V9 again with the "repair" option. That got rid of the errors I encountered.

Surprisingly painless, overall.

[jchiso]

I was just about to make a post about this problem and I find a two-minute-old solution!

[xjim1]

Just to clarify, I went from v6, to v7, then to v9. Took about an hour.

[phelme]

I have a network encoder PC (serving a DirecTV receiver via an HD-PVR2) still on XP and v7 even though the main server is on v9. I think as long as it still continues to function, I'll leave it alone.

[jchiso]

Originally Posted by jchiso

I was just about to make a post about this problem and I find a two-minute-old solution!

Originally Posted by phelme

I have a network encoder PC (serving a DirecTV receiver via an HD-PVR2) still on XP and v7 even though the main server is on v9. I think as long as it still continues to function, I'll leave it alone ...

I should have done the same; my v9 installation won't run at all. I ran the Microsoft Windows installer update and added JRE 1.8, since it said JRE was missing after my prior installs.

I ran about three Repair installs and nothing happens at all. This server, which had been running v7, acts as a network-encoding host to four USB OTA ATSC tuners. Can a v9 server use a v7 system as a network encoder? Because if it can I'm going back ...

[razrsharpe]

Earlier this week I successfully updated from v7 to v9 on win 2003. I ran the installer twice (second time repair). I uninstalled the java 1.6 that was on it and used the bundled 1.7 in the v9 install. Everything went swimmingly and v9 seems more stable/faster than v9

[jusjoken]

Originally Posted by jchiso

I should have done the same; my v9 installation won't run at all. I ran the Microsoft Windows installer update and added JRE 1.8, since it said JRE was missing after my prior installs.

I ran about three Repair installs and nothing happens at all. This server, which had been running v7, acts as a network-encoding host to four USB OTA ATSC tuners. Can a v9 server use a v7 system as a network encoder? Because if it can I'm going back ...

If your Sage folder has a JRE folder, rename it something else while sage is NOT running. That way sage should find the 1.8 you installed

k

[glenner]

Originally Posted by wnjj

This guy did and looking at the bottom of the first post, he had to manually update the Windows installer service first.

https://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=64289

Thanks, I was able to get it working... but yes... I needed the Windows Installer 4.5 as you pointed out. I found it here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/...5-is-available

So ultimately, I was able to upgrade from V6 to V7 cleanly... But then upgrading to V7 to V9, I found there were a few issues I could not easily resolve, though I'm sure for some it could work.

I just backed up my Sage directory... and decided to do a clean V9 install. I then copied my Wiz.bin over to V9 and that recovered my recordings and recording schedule.

I just found it easier to start clean, and reset up the plugins I had from the easy to use plugin UI. Now I have a fresh V9 install on Win XP, and that's going to be my backup config, in case my primary setup goes down for some reason.

[jchiso]

Things still not have gone well for me. I uninstalled v9 and v7 Placeshifter. I uninstalled both of the Java programs that were listed in Control Panel, I removed some old video codecs and such, but at first I got errors that Java was missing after I did a reinstall of v9. I did not have an old JRE folder in the Sage directory. I tried to install a java 1.8 but the system complained that the OS was not up to snuff, but I installed it anyway. It ran and claimed to have installed JRE.

I tried to start v9 and nothing happens. There must be some secret sequence to installing this, but I've not found it ..