Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Cannot upgrade to 10.7

[Andrew Hood <ajhood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Matt Bayliss wrote:
> Hi, I was running Ethereal 10.2 on a Windows 2000 Advanced Server and 
> tried to upgrade to 10.7.  I uninstalled 10.2 and then tried to install 
> 10.7, however I get "Error writing to file libethereal.dll".
>
> The checksum of the file (ethereal-setup-0.10.7.exe) I'm using is 
> b137f41f57e84ada669b6a40a8b7a6e1.
>
> Can anyone suggest a course of action?

Maybe the file is locked. Try some of these:
1. Reboot and retry the install.
2. Reboot into safe mode and retry the install.
3. If it still happens, try renaming the dll (you can usually do this 
even with it locked), reboot, delete the renamed dll, and retry the install.

<mode humour=on>Switch to another O/S with better behaviour.</mode>

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