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Re: Newbie installation problem: non 7-zip archive

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Michele Ballabio <barra_cuda@katamail.com>
Date
Mar 28, 2009, 13:17 UTC
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On Saturday 28 March 2009, Angus Monro wrote:
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> 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/
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