Cannot uninstall the LanguagePack 0 because it is not deployed

Question

I'm trying to run the following PS command on a SharePoint 2010 Foundation Farm:

Update-SPSolution -Identity testwebpart.wsp -LiteralPath C:\ChrisProjects\TestWebPart\TestWebPart\TestWebPart\bin\Debug\TestWebPart.wsp -GACDeployment

But I'm getting the following error:

Update-SPSolution : Cannot uninstall the LanguagePack 0 because it is not deployed. At line:1 char:18 + Update-SPSolution <<<< -Identity testwebpart.wsp -LiteralPath C:\ChrisProjects\TestWebPart\TestWebPart\TestWebPart\b in\Debug\TestWebPart.wsp -GACDeployment + CategoryInfo : InvalidData: (Microsoft.Share...tUpdateSolution:SPCmdletUpdateSolution) [Update-SPSoluti on], SPCmdletException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell.SPCmdletUpdateSolution

I'm looking everywhere for a resolution, but can't find one... I tried restarting the SharePoint 2010 Admin/Timer services, nothing. I tried removing the wsp, but couldn't do it. I tried deploying through CA, that errored out saying the feature had already been installed. Not sure what to do at this point.

I can remove the solution through CA. I then go back to VS, rebuild the wsp and run the following command to get it back on the farm:

stsadm -o addsolution -filename C:\ChrisProjects\TestWebPart\TestWebPart\TestWebPart\bin\Debug\TestWebPart.wsp

I go back to Central Admin, and there it sits. Then, when I go in to Deploy it, I get this message:

A feature with ID ab488346-be08-4a61-aabf-abad966ba10c has already been installed in this farm. Use the force attribute to explicitly re-install the feature.

I am SO lost... I really hate SharePoint.

UPDATE

I'm not really sure why or how, but all of a sudden it's working. I just tried to remove and then readd the package, following the exact same steps above, which I had already done 5 times, and it suddenly worked.

Albert Einstein once said, "Insanity is doing the same task repetitively expecting a different result". Obviously, Mr. Einstein has never worked with SharePoint.

Answer 1

try the following steps

1. Checked the solution store(Central Administration–>System Settings–> Manage farm solutions) and saw that the solution I was updating was not deployed and thrown error. The error it gave was not able to do GAC diployment of the dll. So i went to GAC and uninstall the WSPs related dlls and deployed the wsps again from central admin.

2. From services.msc I stopped and restarted the SharePoint 2010 Timer service and the SharePoint 2010 Administration service.

3. Then i ran the power shell command again. this time the WSP got updated.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/kunal_mukherjee/2012/11/12/error-cannot-uninstall-language-pack-0-because-it-is-not-deployed-when-attempting-to-uninstall-spsolution-on-sharepoint-2010-foundation/

Answer 2

I've got the same problem and solved doing:

• Retract and then Remove of the wsp from: Central Administration–>System Settings–> Manage farm solutions.

• Then, from Powershell, I have canceled the Features with null scope (which were preventing me to install again the package succesfully):

  Get-SPFeature | ? { $_.Scope -eq $null }

  $feature = Get-SPFeature | ? { $_.Scope -eq $null }

  $feature.Delete()

• And at the end I have installed again the wsp:

  Add-SPSolution -LiteralPath Path

  Install-SPSolution -Identity Name.wsp -WebApplication WebApplicationPath –GACDeployment

Then it worked :)