Mechanical APDL 2022 R2 won’t install unless 2022 R1 is installed

- February 1, 2023 at 3:12 pm
  
  Mason Brown
  Subscriber
  
  Hi, IT Admin here so less of a user and more just working with installation instructions. But running into an issue where APDL on 2022 R2 installs as an empty icon/failing program when only R2 gets installed. If we install it in conjunction with 2022 R1, the install works great but we are left with an install that is 102GB+ which is not sustainable in our enterprise environment.
  When working with just the R2 install, every other program seems to launch fine and show correctly on the machine. Updates/service packs did not resolve this, only installing R1 did.
  Any advice for managing this as we have many users in need of 2022 R2 Mechanical APDL. Our env is pushed out to windows machines and many are done via SCCM deployments but we have tried many different ways of installing to see if APDL ever worked and it has not. Thanks for any help.
  Posted here as well: /forum/forums/topic/mechanical-apdl-2022-r2-wont-install-unless-2022-r1-is-installed/
- February 10, 2023 at 6:19 pm
  
  George Karnos
  Ansys Employee
  
  Hello Mason,
  Apologies for the delay.
  I see Gary responded in the other Post.
  Is this still an issue? Has Gary's responses helped?
  
  Issue also seen with SCCM:
  /forum/forums/topic/installation-problems-via-sccm-system-account/#latest