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From: Michele Ballabio <barra_cuda@katamail.com>
To: "Angus Monro" <angusmonro@people.net.au>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Newbie installation problem: non 7-zip archive
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 14:17:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200903281417.46285.barra_cuda@katamail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7BF674E8656F4DA1A97DA952A4CD50EC@NEOAREOPAGUS>

On Saturday 28 March 2009, Angus Monro wrote:
> I’m working on Win XP 2002 SP3.  
> 
> When I download & run PortableGit-1.6.2.1-preview20090322.exe, it asks for
> the installation location, but after I’ve confirmed that location & pressed
> OK, it gives me an error message window:
>      Title bar:   “WinGit: MinGW Git + minimal MSys installation: error”
>      Message:     “Non 7-Zip archive.”
> 
> When I download & run Git-1.6.2.1-preview20090322.exe, it immediately
> complains
>      Title bar:   “Error”
>      Message:     “The setup files are corrupted.  Please obtain a new copy
> of the program.”
> 
> In both cases, I’ve downloaded from
> http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list, and have tried
> re-downloading & re-running, still without success.
> 
> Any thoughts?

Maybe IE (or something else) is corrupting the downloads.

http://brucewagner.wordpress.com/2006/12/15/the-setup-files-are-corrupted-please-obtain-a-new-copy-of-the-program/

  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-28 13:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-28  1:13 Newbie installation problem: non 7-zip archive Angus Monro
2009-03-28 13:17 ` Michele Ballabio [this message]
2009-03-29 20:18   ` Angus Monro

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