The installation of this package has failed on SharePoint 2010 August 2013 CU
This post is something I encountered for the first time I can remember. Honestly, this may have happened before, but not in the last 3+ years of patching SharePoint 2010/2013 have I encountered the following error; "The installation of this package has failed." I've had my fair share of Config Wizard failing, but never the initial binaries failing. Did a bit of digging and the root cause was me, having had to only use one executable for patching SharePoint, not paying attention to the CU hotfix package. This particular package extracted an extra cab file, specifically ubersrv_1.cab. I mistakenly deleted that file and just tried to use the .exe. Thanks to http://blogs.msdn.com/b/kaevans/archive/2013/06/11/sharepoint-2013-kb2726992-the-installation-of-this-package-failed.aspx for steering me in the right direction. If it were not for Google/Bing/Yahoo (insert search engine of choice) I would still be perplexed.