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NOOBS won't download
Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2013 6:31 pm
by JRose
I have tried to download NOOBS from the download page onto my MacBook using Safari and I keep getting 'decompression failed'. It downloads for about 20 minutes and appears to be working each time before it fails. Appreciate any help.
Re: NOOBS won't download
Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2013 7:17 pm
by crazyskeggy
Which NOOBS download are you trying? The full version or the network install version?
Have you tried the Torrent download?
Re: NOOBS won't download
Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2013 7:28 pm
by DougieLawson
Are you able to use wget or curl on a Macbook?
curl -C - -O http://director.downloads.raspberrypi.org/NOOBS/images/NOOBS-2013-11-04/NOOBS_v1_3_2.zip
wget http://director.downloads.raspberrypi.org/NOOBS/images/NOOBS-2013-11-04/NOOBS_v1_3_2.zip
Re: NOOBS won't download
Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2013 10:31 pm
by FTrevorGowen
JRose wrote:I have tried to download NOOBS from the download page onto my MacBook using Safari and I keep getting 'decompression failed'. It downloads for about 20 minutes and appears to be working each time before it fails. Appreciate any help.
Sorry I'm not a MAC user so this is a guess - is it possible that you're trying to download and unzip at the same time? (For me "decompression" implies "unzip").
You might be better off trying to download NOOBS 1.3.2 lite - that's only ~20Mb and should take about 6 - 7 minutes.
Trev.
Re: NOOBS won't download
Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2013 10:54 am
by JRose
The NOOBS version is the 1 3 2 .zip one right from the raspberry.org website (the offline and network install one). I am following the adafruit tutorial, not sure why I would have to go to bitorrent or use any other downloading product. I agree it seems like 'decompression fail' means it is trying to unzip but in my past experience, when you download a zip file you get the zip file and then have to unzip it. For some reason, I am not even getting the download completed and it is giving me the 'decompression fail' error. Again, I am using Safari browser to download. I will try other browsers. Thanks for the advice.
Re: NOOBS won't download
Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2013 11:21 am
by PiLars
Been trying to download for two days now. The farthest I've come so fas is 420 MB. Using Chrome on Windows 7.
/Lars
Re: NOOBS won't download
Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2015 1:44 pm
by Whitesnake29
I've tried well over a dozen times to download NOOBS but won't. It reaches a point then stops. Anyone have a way to download it on a mirror site?
Thanks,
Re: NOOBS won't download
Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2015 7:18 pm
by ecotec
seems to be fine at the moment, just downloaded the NOOBS lite install - only 21.8mb in a few seconds
If you haven't tried the network install try that it should be a swift download depending on your connection