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December 13, 2011
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AIR Application takes 30 minutes to install

  • December 13, 2011
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My very lightweight air application uses some 300 Megs of pictures and sounds. With the pictures and sounds the installation takes more than 30 minutes. Without them less than one.

Below is the install.log. Even after 30 Minutes, the filesystem isn't even touched yet. Why does the AIR-Installer take so long? How can this be overcome?

Cheers,

Philipp

[2011-12-13:17:38:38] Application Installer begin with version 3.1.0.4880 on Windows 7 x86

[2011-12-13:17:38:38] Commandline is: \\FNZHNZN\Dokumente\eBilderwoerterbuch.air

[2011-12-13:17:38:38] Installed runtime (3.1.0.4880) located at c:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe AIR

[2011-12-13:17:38:39] Unpackaging file:////FNZHNZN/Dokumente/eBilderwoerterbuch.air to C:\Users\detlev\AppData\Local\Temp\fla4F57.tmp

[2011-12-13:17:41:46] Application signature verified

[2011-12-13:17:41:46] Unpackaging/validation complete

[2011-12-13:17:41:47] Installed app (eBilderwoerterbuch) located at C:\Program Files (x86)\NGV\eBilderwörterbuch\eBilderwörterbuch.exe

[2011-12-13:17:41:50] Converting unpackaged application to a native installation package in C:\Users\detlev\AppData\Local\Temp\fla3B1D.tmp

[2011-12-13:17:45:33] Native installation package creation succeeded

[2011-12-13:17:45:33] Starting app update of C:\Program Files (x86)\NGV. Updating from eBilderwoerterbuch version 1.2 to eBilderwoerterbuch version 1.2 using the source file at file:////FNZHNZN/Dokumente/eBilderwoerterbuch.air

[2011-12-13:17:45:33] Installing msi at C:\Users\detlev\AppData\Local\Temp\fla3B1D.tmp\setup.msi with guid {32F4B2AD-AA3C-6C93-F8AD-635E13C44B64}

[2011-12-13:17:48:09] Error occurred during msi install operation; beginning rollback: [ErrorEvent type="error" bubbles=false cancelable=false eventPhase=2 text="1603" errorID=0]

[2011-12-13:17:48:09] Rolling back install of C:\Users\detlev\AppData\Local\Temp\fla3B1D.tmp\setup.msi

[2011-12-13:17:48:09] Rollback complete

[2011-12-13:17:48:09] Got an unexpected fatal error while in stateInstalling: [ErrorEvent type="error" bubbles=false cancelable=false eventPhase=2 text="1603" errorID=0]

[2011-12-13:17:48:09] Launching subprocess with commandline c:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe AIR\Versions\1.0\Adobe AIR Application Installer -runtime "c:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files" -update -silent -logToStdout "C:\Program Files (x86)\NGV\eBilderwörterbuch\eBilderwörterbuch.exe" file:////FNZHNZN/Dokumente/eBilderwoerterbuch.air 1.2

[2011-12-13:17:48:09] Relaunching with elevation

[2011-12-13:17:48:17] Application Installer begin with version 3.1.0.4880 on Windows 7 x86

[2011-12-13:17:48:17] Commandline is: -stdio \\.\pipe\AIR_2408_0 -runtime "c:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files" -update -silent -logToStdout "C:\Program Files (x86)\NGV\eBilderwörterbuch\eBilderwörterbuch.exe" file:////FNZHNZN/Dokumente/eBilderwoerterbuch.air 1.2

[2011-12-13:17:48:17] Installed runtime (3.1.0.4880) located at c:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe AIR

[2011-12-13:17:48:18] Installed app (eBilderwoerterbuch) located at C:\Program Files (x86)\NGV\eBilderwörterbuch\eBilderwörterbuch.exe

[2011-12-13:17:48:18] Unpackaging file:////FNZHNZN/Dokumente/eBilderwoerterbuch.air to C:\Users\detlev\AppData\Local\Temp\fla271F.tmp

[2011-12-13:17:51:01] Application signature verified

[2011-12-13:17:51:01] Unpackaging/validation complete

[2011-12-13:17:51:01] Converting unpackaged application to a native installation package in C:\Users\detlev\AppData\Local\Temp\flaA3FD.tmp

[2011-12-13:17:56:07] Native installation package creation succeeded

[2011-12-13:17:56:07] Starting silent app update of C:\Program Files (x86)\NGV. Updating from eBilderwoerterbuch version 1.2 to eBilderwoerterbuch version 1.2 using the source file at file:////FNZHNZN/Dokumente/eBilderwoerterbuch.air

[2011-12-13:17:56:07] Installing msi at C:\Users\detlev\AppData\Local\Temp\flaA3FD.tmp\setup.msi with guid {32F4B2AD-AA3C-6C93-F8AD-635E13C44B64}

[2011-12-13:18:10:35] Application Installer end with exit code 0

[2011-12-13:18:10:37] Elevated install completed

[2011-12-13:18:10:42] Launching subprocess with commandline C:\Program Files (x86)\NGV\eBilderwörterbuch\eBilderwörterbuch.exe

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Philipp88Author
Participant
December 13, 2011

Please excuse my weird screen name, all else seemed taken...

chris.campbell
Legend
December 14, 2011

Well, from the looks of it the log is correct.  You aren't running into any unexpected problems.  On Vista and Win 7, the first pass of the install fails due to a lack of elevated privileges.  This is expected, and typically insignificant with respect to install time.  Unfortunately, in your case the unpackaging, converting, copying, etc. takes almost 10 minutes.

Have you considered pulling your media out of the installer and using another method at runtime?  Or possibly creating a stand alone native installer and including both your media and the AIR related files?  There are new deployment options available in AIR 3 that might be of interest to you:

Installation and deployment options in Adobe AIR 3

Just out of curiosity, how many individual files are being installed?  We've tested large installs out but never seen anything that takes this long to install.

Thanks,

Chris