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SQL Server 2019 Installation Error - An error occurred for a dependency of the feature

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Balmukund-Lakhani
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Nov 11, 2019
After release of SQL Server 2019, one of our customer was trying to install SQL Server 2019 and encountered an error message. Since I was able to reproduce the issue in my lab, I contacted SSMS produ...
Updated Dec 02, 2019
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danielmarschall
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Oct 11, 2020

I had the same problem

I got the error message in German, when I wanted to upgrade SQL Server 2017 Express to SQL Server 2019 Standard:

 

 Status:                        Fehler. Ausführliche Informationen finden Sie in den Protokollen

  Reason for failure:            Da eine Abhängigkeit der Funktion einen Fehler verursacht hat, war der Setupvorgang für die Funktion nicht erfolgreich.

  Next Step:                     Beheben Sie den Fehler mithilfe der folgenden Informationen, und versuchen Sie erneut, den Setupvorgang auszuführen.

 

The solution of jnikaido helped: I had to copy the contents of the virtual ISO file somewhere to the C: drive and ran setup.exe from there.
This is definitively something Microsoft should fix. I mean, the ISO is the official file and thousands of people will try to run setup.exe out of the ISO?!