Install failed: gzip error

[CloudyCity]

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Install with command: curl -sSL https://git.io/g-install | sh -s
2. Install go: g install 1.22.1

Error output

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

Environment

Windows MSYS2 zsh

Additional context

[stefanmaric]

Hi @CloudyCity, thanks for reporting this issue.

This seems to me to be a corrupted download.

We do not check shasums as it would mean bundling the versions information with g, which in turns means having to update g before being able to use new versions of go, something that differentiates g from other go version managers.

Instead, for security, we simply rely on SSL and the OS installed certificate chains.

Other possibility might be a faulty version of gunzip in your system. g doesn't really support MSYS2, it officially supports MacOS, Linux, FreeBSD/OpenBSD and windows only via WSL, while it should probably work on any Unix-like, POSIX-compliant system.

Since MSYS2 does not aim to be POSIX-compliant I will treat this issue as out-of-scope.

If you can replicate this error in other environments, like WSL, please feel free to open another issue.

Thanks again for your collaboration. ❤