When installing SharePoint 2013 service pack 1 on a SharePoint farm, the extraction of the service pack kept failing on one web front end.

When clicking on the officeserversp2013-kb2880552-fullfile-x64-en-us.exe file, the User Account Control dialog appeared, then when I continued to extract the files, the process failed with “The installation of this package failed”.

Looking the service pack log file showed that some files were successfully extracted before the error.

In order to work around the error on this server I found I needed to open an administrative command prompt and then run the service pack.