Troubleshooting Setup Error – The Language of This Installation Package is Not Supported by Your System

As you may already know, software packages are developed from a language and consists of written programs or procedures or rules and associated documentation that is used for some generalized particular purpose.
setup-error-the-language-of-this-installation-package-is-not-supported-by-your-system Installation of Microsoft office products and packages may sometimes be troublesome and frustrating for you as it encounters the above setup error that says – “The language of this installation package is not supported by your system”. The possible causes for getting this setup error during installation are:

  1. Necessary supplemental East-Asian language support missing on your system.
  2. Errors in the method of extraction of setup files from the source files.
  3. The CD/DVD drive from which setup files are accessed for installation may be faulty.

Troubleshooting Tips to Fix This Setup Error Occurred During Office Products installation.

  1. Control Panel - Regional and Language OptionsAccess ‘Regional and Language Options’ from Control Panel and navigate to Languages tab to tick the box under Supplemental Language Support sub tab that says – Install files for East Asian languages and click Apply >> OK.

    regional-and-language-options-install-files-for-east-asian-languagesThis prompts you to insert your Windows Operating System CD into your computer’s CD/DVD drive for the extraction of necessary language files after which you’ll have to restart your system for the changes to take effect.

  2. Use different utility/tool to re-extract the setup files from the source files. Even better way for extracting the data would be using the command line operator. The syntax is
    E:<windows-executable-file.exe> /extract:<path>

    Here, E is the drive location where the windows executable file(.exe) is located and <path> specifies the location where the setup files are to be extracted.

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