{"id":1266,"date":"2014-08-05T10:44:10","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T09:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.xhd.nl\/?p=1266"},"modified":"2014-08-05T10:44:10","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T09:44:10","slug":"solved-adobe-lightroom-5-6-fails-to-install-on-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.xhd.nl\/?p=1266","title":{"rendered":"Solved: Adobe Lightroom 5.6 fails to install on Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being an owner of Lightroom 5, I was asked to upgrade my installation to Lightroom 5.6 . After downloading the installer asks for a location to unpack Lightroom before it installs, and at that point it throws an error at you stating there was a problem while installing Lightroom 5.6 and it kindly asks you to download the product again.<\/p>\n<p>When you do download it again, of course it fails over and over. I could not get to the root of this issue, until I figured I&#8217;d start the installation from disk directly an not through my Firefox broswer. Duuh! I don&#8217;t know what Adobe has done to this installer to make it fail, but running the installation directly from the download location through the Windows Explorer works perfectly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being an owner of Lightroom 5, I was asked to upgrade my installation to Lightroom 5.6 . After downloading the installer asks for a location to unpack Lightroom before it installs, and at that point it throws an error at you stating there was a problem while installing Lightroom 5.6 and it kindly asks you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[154,201,202,205,206,209,204,207,200,203,208],"class_list":["post-1266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography-news","tag-adobe","tag-adobe-lightroom","tag-adobe-lightroom-5-6","tag-fail","tag-fails","tag-firefox","tag-install","tag-installation-fails","tag-lightroom","tag-lightroom-5-6","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.xhd.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.xhd.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.xhd.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.xhd.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.xhd.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.xhd.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1267,"href":"https:\/\/blog.xhd.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions\/1267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.xhd.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.xhd.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.xhd.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}