Installation

Installation Error - Getting Error 1403

SWAPnil786
New Member

When i am installing Splunk in my windows XP machine getting error 1304 writing to file c:\Program Files\Splunk\Python-2.7\Lib\site-packages\babel\local data\nl.dat verify that you have access to the directory.Can you please help on this..

Thanks and Regards
Swapnil Gangrade

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Drainy
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Well, have you checked the permissions on that directory? It sounds like an old install by another user exists there or perhaps you need to escalate your installer permissions.

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Drainy
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From memory I would say right click and Run as Administrator or Install as Administrator

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SWAPnil786
New Member

Thanks for your reply , This is my first Installation and the same error is coming when i am trying to install on our production system windows 7 64 bit . How to esclate installer permission??
Can you help me further as my directory have all the permissions ..read and right.

Thanks
Swapnil Gangrade

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