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Installation Note 36058: The installation might fail when you install SAS® 9.2 Foundation from a SAS Software Depot if the fully qualified pathname is too long
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When you install SAS 9.2 Foundation software from a SAS Software Depot, the installation might fail. If this happens, you will see the following error in the sasinstall log file:
PROCFILES: --> The following error occurred while installing C:\Program Files\SAS\SASVersionedJarRepository\9.2\eclipse\plugins\ sas.analytics.cmpfuncetsmdl.nls_902000.0.0.20090116170000_v920 \sas.analytics.cmpfuncetsmdl.nls.jar: -2147024894, The system cannot find the file specified.
The sasinstall_date_time.log file is located in the SASHOME\InstallMisc\InstallLogs\9.2 directory. The default location is:
C:\Program Files\SAS\InstallMisc\InstallLogs\9.2\
sasinstall_date_installed_time_installed.log.
sasinstall_date_installed_time_installed.log.
The issue is caused by a fully qualified path name that is too long. The maximum file name supported on Windows XP is 255 characters and on Windows Vista it is 260.
Use a filename and path to the SAS Software Depot root that is no more than 50 characters. Several directories in the SAS Software Depot are long.
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | SAS Release | |
| Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | Base SAS | Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.2 TS2M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS2M0 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS2M0 | |||
| Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 9.2 TS2M0 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.2 TS2M0 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.2 TS2M0 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.2 TS2M0 | |||
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.2 TS2M0 | |||
| Windows Vista | 9.2 TS2M0 | |||