Looks like the installer on Windows is hitting the MAX_PATH limitation in Windows itself just had a look at the splunkd.log output. Untarring into etc/apps seems to work fine. 2-30-2023 14:29:56.212 +0400 WARN Pathname [3268 TcpChannelThread] - Pathname 'C:\Program Files\Splunk\var\run\splunk\bundle_tmp\e1dd8fe8ca2eeba4\Splunk_SA_Scientific_Python_windows_x86_64\bin\windows_x86_64\Lib\site-packages\caffe2\python\serialized_test\data\operator_test\collect_and_distribute_fpn_rpn_proposals_op_test.test_collect_and_dist.zip' larger than MAX_PATH, callers: call_sites=[0x100f9b8, 0xdf3670, 0xdf1884, 0x8e9215, 0x8f0141, 0x8ef770, 0x8cc811, 0x8b2c61, 0xffcd08, 0x1083908, 0xfa45c3] 12-30-2023 14:29:56.212 +0400 WARN LocalAppsAdminHandler [3268 TcpChannelThread] - File length is greater than 260, File creation may fail for C:\Program Files\Splunk\var\run\splunk\bundle_tmp\e1dd8fe8ca2eeba4\Splunk_SA_Scientific_Python_windows_x86_64\bin\windows_x86_64\Lib\site-packages\caffe2\python\serialized_test\data\operator_test\collect_and_distribute_fpn_rpn_proposals_op_test.test_collect_and_dist.zip 12-30-2023 14:29:56.212 +0400 WARN LocalAppsAdminHandler [3268 TcpChannelThread] - Failed to create file C:\Program Files\Splunk\var\run\splunk\bundle_tmp\e1dd8fe8ca2eeba4\Splunk_SA_Scientific_Python_windows_x86_64\bin\windows_x86_64\Lib\site-packages\caffe2\python\serialized_test\data\operator_test\collect_and_distribute_fpn_rpn_proposals_op_test.test_collect_and_dist.zip while untarring C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\tmpfgko5w2i: The system cannot find the path specified. ... View more