From: hyderabadblues <sirishkumar@...>
Date: 2008-11-07T22:18:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Installation

On Nov 7, 1:49 pm, Brian Candler <b.cand...@pobox.com> wrote:
> hyderabadblues wrote:
> > I am trying to install ruby on my XP machine, but I get the error
> > which says
> > "The installer you are trying to use is corrupted or incomplete"
>
> Then almost certainly the file is corrupted or incomplete, just as it
> says.
>
> If you downloaded it via FTP, did you remember to use binary mode? If
> you downloaded it via HTTP, did you right-click to save to a file?
>
> To be sure, get a cryptographic hash (e.g. sha1 or md5) from the file on
> this machine, and compare it to the hash of the file on the other
> machine. If the hashes are different, the two files are definitely
> different. Also, many download sites publish the sha1 or md5 of the file
> you're downloading, so you can compare to that too.
>
> I don't use Windows so I don't know what utility you'd need to install
> to get an sha1 or md5, but I'm sure there must be plenty around.
> --
> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I haved tested for checksum using md5 utility available in Cygwin, md5
of the ruby sw given in the website and downloaded version is
different, may be that is the reason for failure. But the problem is I
have downloaded it 5 times till now , I still face the same problem,
may be there is some problem with my harddisk. But everything else I
have downloaded works fine...