When trying to install SharePoint Server 2010 Language
Packs on top of Windows 7 you might receive the following error – “Setup
is enable to proceed due to the following errors: this product requires
Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 …” – to work around this you can use
the same procedure with the language pack installation files as the one
outlined for the normal SharePoint installation on Windows 7 – a great
walkthrough is Setting up the Development Environment for SharePoint 2010 on Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008. Listed below are the exact steps
- Copy
the language pack installation files to a folder on your computer where
you are installing SharePoint and doing your development
- Extract
the installation files by opening a Command Prompt window, and then
typing the following command at the directory location of the folder
where you copied the installation files in the previous step.
- For SharePoint Foundation 2010 - c:\SharePointFiles\SharePointLanguagePack.exe /extract:c:\LangPack
- For SharePoint Server 2010 -c:\SharePointFiles\ServerLanguagePack.exe /extract:c:\LangPack
- Using
a text editor such as Notepad, open the installation configuration
file, config.xml, located in the following path:
c:\LangPack\files\Setup\config.xml and add
inside the tag
- Proceed with the installation using the normal way of working
