November 2017
I'm currently trying to setup Origin with Wine to run SIMS4 on my Linux laptop.
I kept seeing this error during installation, too. The log said
**31 [2017-11-04 11:18:48.647] Error Origin::ThinSetup::ErrorTransition::onTransition 377 ThinSetupController transtioning to error state: ThinSetup Error: kCreateDirectoryFailed (3:5:) *** at PlatformHelpers_Win32.cpp:162 - Origin::ThinSetup::PlatformHelpers::createFolderPath - Unable to create folder path. SHCreateDirectoryEx Result = 5 *** at UpdateController.cpp:2451 - Origin::ThinSetup::UpdateController::copyUpdateFiles - Unable to create update target folder: C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin\legacyPM *** at UpdateController.cpp:1080 - Origin::ThinSetup::UpdateController::copyStagedClientUpdateFiles - Unable to copy update files. *** at ThinSetupController.cpp:839 - Origin::ThinSetup::ThinSetupController::onCopyUpdateData - Error when copying update data.
It turned out Origin created its installation destination directory and constantly turned its permissions to read-only. Thus the installation process was not able to create directories within this destination.
I wrote a little perl script watching this directory and fixing its permissions instantly:
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Linux::Inotify2; my $inotify = new Linux::Inotify2 or die "unable to create new inotify object: $!"; my $file = q(/home/me/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/Origin/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Origin); $inotify->watch ($file, IN_ACCESS, sub { chmod 0755, $file; }); 1 while $inotify->poll;
At least I was able to install Origin.
December 2017
June 2018
hey this reply is from years later ...sorry! so i got the same problem and i didn't know if you know know it would be nice for tips or help i have a windows 7 and i don't know if it's just my computer
October 2018
didnt work for me
March 2019
Hi, I'm having this problem too...
Have you been able to fix it?
April 2019
Total POS. Origin won't install regardless of compatibility settings. Gawd I hate EA.
May 2019
i also keep getting that
July 2019
September 2019
If you choose a different destination other than default, and also if any of the folders that is in that destination you chose has non-English characters, you also get this error.
September 2019
same