Where did you guys get that version of the installer? If you go to http://msys2.github.io/ today, you get the 20160205 version, which should work.
This issue is also being discussed on GitHub: https://github.com/Alexpux/MSYS2-packages/issues/657 --David On Sat, Jul 30, 2016 at 11:19 AM, Jan Niklas Hasse <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 30 Jul 2016, at 15:23, Andrew Lowe wrote: >> Hi all, >> I'm in the process of doing a fresh install of msys2. I've downloaded >> the 64bit version, msys2-x86_64-20160719.exe, and attempted to run it. >> Nothing happens. Even if I start up a cmd shell and run it from the >> command line, nothing happens, just straight to a new line in the shell. >> >> I've noticed that the download is 27.5MB whilst the *.tar.xz is 47.0MB >> and previous *.exe's have usually been larger than the corresponding >> *.tar.xz. Is the current version dodgy/corrupted in some way or has the >> packaging of the *.exe changed? >> >> Thoughts? >> Andrew > > I'm running into the same problem with the current installer. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Msys2-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/msys2-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Msys2-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/msys2-users
