1602, 1603 exit code meaning?

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I’m getting a 1602 and 1603 code for installs of Adobe Acrobat DC using the setup.exe. Action script without the prefetch below.

wait “__Download\setup.exe” /qn /norestart

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1603 is an MSI exit code. It generally means “MSI is confused.“. In practicality it means “reboot and try again.”

See: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa376931(v=vs.85).aspx

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It can also mean a lot of things depending on how the package creator decided to terminate the installation based on their own custom checks.

For a lot of products, it means “you can’t install on this platform”, like a patch that’s already installed, or a 64-bit package installing on a 32-bit operating system.

For some, (and I will name-shame VMWare on this), it means “I really want you to reboot before installing and I detected a pending file rename operation so I’m going to throw up now”.

Easiest way to check is to run the MSI with a full GUI and see whether it gives a useful error message. Less easy way is to run the installer and create an MSI log, those can be very long and confusing but are useful in diagnosing the problem.

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Oh. Thanks Jason. It is very likely that it is a architecture issue.