Problems installing .NET 3.5 on VPS? (solution here)

[torbenrohde]

Just finished installing the .NET 3.5 on my VPS. It caused me a bit of trouble, so I just thought I'd post it here in case anyone else encountered the same problem.
If the installation of .NET 3.5 SP1 aborts with an error containing something with "XPSEPSC" try to do as described in this blog-post (I got it working by replicating the steps in the comment from September 19. 2008 16:49).

Copy/paste from blog comment:

1. Restart the VPS (via the Virtuozzo control panel)
2. When the VPS is running again, rename "C:\Windows\System32\CatRoot2" (e.g. to C:\Windows\System32\oldCatRoot2 or so). DO NOT RENAME C:\Windows\System32\CatRoot, only CatRoot2
3. Start the Printer Spooler service (no need to set the start mode to auto, leave it at manual)
4. Run the .NET 3.5 SP1 installer (full version)
5. You'll probably need to reboot after installation

 

[Stephen]

Good, thanks for posting, we do this quite a bit for people, sometimes this solution works, and sometimes it is a bit more involved and we have to manually install the crypto service that fails to install.

a direct download link for that XPSEC installer is: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=96332