Hi :) On a dodgy connection that intermittently "drops out" Internet Explorer just stops the download and pretends that it's all done. Firefox and most others tend to try to either resume the download or starts the download again.
It's better to use torrenting because torrents allow you to interrupt and then resume again later, plus it keeps track of the download and keeps checking you are getting a perfect download. The normal web-browser method don't keep checking the accuracy so rigorously. However, it takes a little while to get used to torrenting and it means you need to install a "torrenting client". There are a lot of fanboys out there saying this one or that is better and that others are rubbish but really it's best to just start with any torrenting client and then try out other later to see which you prefer. You will fairly quickly work out which features you like and which you don't find necessary. A Sha or Md5sum check involves running a small program on your computer to generate a number (called a "hash" but you can't smoke it and it's not illegal) and then compare that number with the relevant one listed on the website you are downloading from. The couple of times i tried this i used an on-screen calculator to copy&paste the numbers so i could easily take one away from the other. A non-zero result meant my connection had stuffed-up. Usually it's fairly tricky to find the sha or md5sum number and for most projects they tend to all be on one page so you have to scroll through the look-up table to try to find. If the download was for one of the recent versions and was the one for Windows then it's likely to be either near the very top or near the very bottom so if you can't see it at the top scroll all the way through very fast and then come back to the middle later on if you still haven't found it. For LibreOffice we have a different page for each release and list the has/number for all the types of checking tools. You can get these from the downloads page by clicking on the "info" link in the fake button. For example The best version for corporate deployments, because it is the current most stable version, so it's less likely people run into weird problems, is the 4.0.5 Windows - LO 4.0.5 main installer in English (US) SHA-256 Hash: 903816ac56bacff8c1a7fe98919da579548b4f2433a35a7525442892a9bbc189 SHA-1 Hash: 0117ba5ae0bda3b1259a455ffaa0a240c155e0d8 MD5 Hash: 2591a067e9264f615552f11803c1cd64 Windows - LO 4.0.5 in-built help files (so when people click on the Help button in LO they get a pop-up help rather than being sent to an online wiki page) in English (US) SHA-256 Hash: 5966730df81da65da4fc9b3487aae942014eeead71349a2d682fdd28efaa59aa SHA-1 Hash: 6c7f477e915e8c92ab0c55298a790b54e8e150a5 MD5 Hash: 0a7331174784616ac294c9cd831fb088 Even though the default download, the 4.1.1 (soon the 4.1.2), has better compatibility with MS Office formats such as DocX (and has tons of new features) it's probably not so good for corporate deployments unless users have been using LibreOffice for quite a long time and know what to expect. When they first encounter LibreOffice they are likely to have a lot of questions and it's good for you to feel confident that their questions are NOT bugs and ARE solvable, possibly just requiring a slightly more sensible approach than the MS Office way. With early releases in a new branch (such as until x.x.4) you can never be certain. So, anyway; Windows - LO 4.1.1 main installer in English (US) SHA-256 Hash: 0fb99813311b46117b76f815d5d417c6d031a52fd577dba0bae00854fe666358 SHA-1 Hash: 43dfcfcdf3d828654a6408ab8bdb8b2666012a88 MD5 Hash: 4fa047c0590097ce201f49655365d772 Windows - LO 4.1.1 in-built help files in English (US) SHA-256 Hash: da63436432e6ca438c367df68502faae5b58d309ea9574249fcffe3541ebd648 SHA-1 Hash: 5465fe639d3a3b0e7d51ff007ab6e00cbf8db27b MD5 Hash: c48277e435c9f4e8b6984a7b58f52bbc If you have not yet learned about checking downloads using these keys/hashes/numbers then it's probably best to start using the Sha256 and get ahead of those of us that are still stuck on older versions. However, like i said, it's probably best to start off by just re-downloading but use Firefox or some other web-browser rather than using Internet Explorer. Then test on just 1 or 2 machines to see if the download did work. Ruth's advice is good and she gave 3rd party sites that both have a fairly good reputation. Anyway, i just felt my own previous reply was a bit shoddy so i thought i would make the effort to improve on my own answer. Good luck and regards from Tom :) ----- Original Message ----- From: Ruth Ann <came...@gmail.com> To: users@global.libreoffice.org Cc: Sent: Tuesday, 1 October 2013, 3:24 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Corrupt Installer Errors?? I had that same problem when I tried to install LO on both my new computer and on a new laptop. I had also been having problems with my internet connection while trying to set up the new computer. So, when the install did not work on either computer, I tried downloading the program with a different WiFi network, and this time I got different errors, but it would still not install on either computer. So then I got the idea to download from a different web site, and this time it did work and it installed with no problems. I still do not know if the problem was with my internet or with the download itself. My new computers run Windows 8. The original download (that gave errors during install) was the "official" site: http://www.libreoffice.org/download To find another site, I just googled "download Libre Office" and came up a number of sites. I do not remember which one I used, but I think it was either: http://www.download-21.com/libreoffice-20639/ or http://download.cnet.com/LibreOffice/3000-18483_4-75337651.html HTH Ruth Ann, Cincinnati, OH, USA On 9/30/2013 5:37 PM, contrazz wrote: > I've tried to install LibreOffice and the Help on two computers where I work. > The computers both complain that the main installer is not a valid installer > - and that the Help installer has a corrupt CAB file. This seems fairly > unlikely to be true, but I'm checking to see whether there have been similar > problems reported by others. If no one else is having trouble, I'll hassle > the IT department here ... 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