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Newbie installation problem: non 7-zip archive

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AMAngus Monro <angusmonro@people.net.au>
Date
Mar 28, 2009, 01:13 UTC
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Hi,
I’m just looking at GIT for the first time, but can’t get past first base.
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?
Thanks,
Angus Monro.
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  1. Angus MonroMar 28, 2009
  2. Michele BallabioMar 28, 2009
  3. Angus MonroMar 29, 2009

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