Error occurred in deployment step 'Add Solution': Feature with Id 'guid' is not installed in this farm, and cannot be added to this scope

Question

I have added FeatureEventReceiver to the solution and here is my code,

 public override void FeatureInstalled(SPFeatureReceiverProperties properties)
        {

        SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(delegate()
        {

            using (SPSite site = new SPSite("http://itcdev33"))
            {
                using (SPWeb web = site.RootWeb)
                {

                    web.AllowUnsafeUpdates = true;
                    site.AllowUnsafeUpdates = true;
                    Guid myid = new Guid("32529c03-833d-4c5e-a15e-0bcb35bdedad");
                    if (site.Features[myid] == null)
                    {
                        site.Features.Add(myid, true, SPFeatureDefinitionScope.Site);
                    }
                    web.Update();
                    site.AllowUnsafeUpdates = false;
                    web.AllowUnsafeUpdates = false;
                }
            }
        });

    }

Answer 1

already answered here:

Activate a feature in feature installed

issue and why:

The FeatureInstalled method is called when the WSP is loaded into the Farm and the Feature files are copied into the 12 hive.

This is done in Central Administration or via the command line (Powershell or STSADM). Because of this, there is no website Context to speak of, no site collection or no SPWeb.

solution:

Then your solution is to have the Feature scoped to Web-Application, your Feature.Parent will be an SPWebApplication object, and you will be able to access the Sites property of that SPWebApplication, which is a collection of SPSite objects. You'll then be able to activate your Site Collection Scoped feature at that level.

Answer 2

I don't think it is possible to activate the same feature in the Feature installed event. The feature installation is not yet complete and trying to activate it will cause the error you are seeing.

UPDATE

static void Main(string[] args)
{

    using (SPSite site = new SPSite("http://itcdev33"))
    {
        SPWeb web = site.RootWeb;
        web.AllowUnsafeUpdates = true;
        Guid featureGuid = new Guid("32529c03-833d-4c5e-a15e-0bcb35bdedad");
        web.Features.Add(featureGuid);
        web.AllowUnsafeUpdates = false;
    }           
}

You can also activate the feature using PowerShell:

Enable-SPFeature "32529c03-833d-4c5e-a15e-0bcb35bdedad" -Url "http://itcdev33"