Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 2167
Installation CRC Error
Last modified: 2007-07-09 08:57:29 UTC
When unzipping the downloaded install638C_win32intel.zip to a subdirectory, the following crc-error appears: "bad CRC 368e8cb2 (should be 041188c3)." Using WinZip 7.0 English on a German Windows 2001 with Servicepack 2.
That sounds like a damaged download file. I can't reproduce this with a downloaded OOo 638c.
Can't reproduce.
This issue continues to be reported. I experienced it myself. I resolved it by installing Java first, then installing the Openoffice without JRE download. I have seen at least four other reports of the same problem. Please reopen.
You can't rule out that a download might be corrupted or that an upload to the mirrors might fail. But it's no a general OOo problem. Without detailed information e.g. which server/mirror has been used for download there can't be done anything.
Regardless of whether it's a "general OOo problem", this continues to be a problem for many users. Hardly a day goes by without at least one more report of the same issue on the users mail list. As far as I know, the issue only applies to the OOo_2.2.1_Win32Intel_install_wJRE_en-US package. The "without JRE" is OK.
Since the world wide web has a common usability and since downloading is a wide spread way to distribute files it has always been a problem for users that a damaged download might happen. So this will also happen to OOo. It's not in our hand to fix the internet. "As far as I know, the issue only applies to the OOo_2.2.1_Win32Intel_install_wJRE_en-US package." Im reading this list for years now. And this happens to all OOo file randomly. As long as you can't determine the server/mirror where the damaged file is hosted we can't do anything. If you can name the server please open a new issue.