MATLAB: Do I receive a ‘cabinet file’ error when trying to install MCRInstaller

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I am trying to install MCRInstaller so that I can run a deployed application. I run MCRInstaller.exe and before the installation process is complete, a popup error dialog box appears with the error message:

 The cabinet file '_B74EE4BCEB570BAD75C6A3C4E5D427C7' required for this installation is corrupt and cannot be used.  This could indicate a network error, an error reading from the CD-ROM, or a problem with this package.

As a result, the installation fails and I am unable to run a deployed application.

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This error is caused by attempting to manually execute the unzipped setup.exe file during the installation process.

To avoid this error, running MCRInstaller.exe again. The MCR Installer will unzip several files including setup.exe, which it will execute programmatically. DO NOT attempt to manually execute this file, by double clicking on it, during the installation process.

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MATLAB: Do I receive errors that COM servers could not be installed when installing MCRInstaller

This bug has been fixed in Release 14 Service Pack 3 (R14SP3). For previous product releases, read below for any possible workarounds:

There is a bug in MATLAB 7.0 (R14) in the way that MCRInstaller handles registration of COM servers. To work around this issue, try registering the COM servers manually by performing the following steps:

1. Open a Run dialog box by selecting Run from the Windows Start menu.

2. Open a DOS command prompt window by running the command "cmd".

3. Use the DOS command "cd" to change directories to $MCR_ROOT\v70\runtime\win32, where $MCR_ROOT is the root directory in which you tried installing MATLAB Component Runtime.

4. Execute the following commands:

 regsvr32 mwcomutil.dll

and:

 regsvr32 mwcommgr.dll

After executing each of these commands, a dialog box should appear stating that the COM server has been successfully registered. After this step, installation of MATLAB Component Runtime should be complete.

MATLAB: Do I receive a “cannot create Setup.exe” error when trying to install the MCRInstaller

This error is a result of the MCRInstaller not being able to write to the directory from which it is being run.

In order for the MCRInstaller to install, it must first extract several temporary setup files (Setup.exe, Setup.ini, InstMsiW.Exe, and MCRInstaller.msi). If the MCRInstaller is trying to extract these files to a directory where it cannot or may not write files, it will produce the error. Example situations of this would include trying to install from a CD-ROM drive or trying to install from a network folder with read-only permissions.

You can work around this by using the "-d" flag to specify a directory to which the MCRInstaller can extract these temporary setup files.

For example, to extract the temporary setup files to the folder "D:\MCRInstall", issue the following command at the system prompt:

 MCRInstaller.exe -d D:\MCRInstall

As a second example, to extract to a user's temporary directory (provided they have a "temp" system variable), use the following command:

 MCRInstaller.exe -d %temp%\MCRInstall

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