Installing GitHub for Windows

Question

I\'m trying to install GitHub for Windows. I tried installing it the normal way and got this error:

Application installation did not succeed. Cannot locate a

Answer 1

I had the exact same problem and it turned out that a Web Content Filtering system was getting errors for many of the git client files, some of them are included below.

Spoofed files

http://github-windows.s3.amazonaws.com/Application Files/GitHub_1_0_48_0/msvcp100.dll.deploy
http://github-windows.s3.amazonaws.com/Application Files/GitHub_1_0_48_0/sqlite3.dll.deploy
http://github-windows.s3.amazonaws.com/Application Files/GitHub_1_0_48_0/7za.exe.deploy
http://github-windows.s3.amazonaws.com/Application Files/GitHub_1_0_48_0/RestSharp.dll.deploy
http://github-windows.s3.amazonaws.com/Application Files/GitHub_1_0_48_0/git2.dll.deploy
http://github-windows.s3.amazonaws.com/Application Files/GitHub_1_0_48_0/ReactiveUI.Xaml.dll.deploy
http://github-windows.s3.amazonaws.com/Application Files/GitHub_1_0_48_0/zh-Hant/Microsoft.Expression.Interactions.resources.dll.deploy
http://github-windows.s3.amazonaws.com/Application Files/GitHub_1_0_48_0/GitHub.UI.dll.deploy
http://github-windows.s3.amazonaws.com/Application Files/GitHub_1_0_48_0/GitHub.exe.deploy

Missing Digital Signature

http://github-windows.s3.amazonaws.com/Application Files/GitHub_1_0_48_0/chromium-pack.7z.deploy

Number of contained files exceeds limit

http://github-windows.s3.amazonaws.com/Application Files/GitHub_1_0_48_0/PortableGit.7z.deploy

I suppose you should contact your network admin and get him to set up exceptions for these files, or even better for the whole http://github-windows.s3.amazonaws.com. Still, IMHO, this shouldn't be happening. I'll try to get in touch with Github support.