Installing of Adobe Air file fails with "file damaged"

Question

Adobe Air brings following exception:

The application could not be installed because the AIR file is damaged. Try obtaining a new AIR file from the application author.

Please add the different reasons which may lead to this error.

Solution 1

We had the same error as this guy:

The file ~/.airappinstall contains the following error:

failed while unpackaging: [ErrorEvent type="error" bubbles=false cancelable=false eventPhase=2 text="invalid package signature" errorID=5022]

The actual reason was not a damaged file or something like this, but our machine had a date from the past, which was not valid for the given certificate. After correcting the date/time on the computer, the installation worked just fine.

Solution 2

I have a virtual drive mapped to S: so that paths are the same between my home computer and work computer. I was trying to install the AIR app from an S: path. I guess it did it like it. Moving app to my desktop and launching there, worked.

Solution 3

Even I faced the same error=5022, after thinking a lot on this issue, I finally got the solution for this problem. It is simple, before installing the air app set the correct Date & Time for the system, WALLA it installs smoothly.

No need of changing the png name or anything else.

Solution 4

I faced this problem yesterday because my antivirus (avast pro/silent mode) was blocking access to file until finishing scanning, looks like installer don't like to wait, so when I switched off silent mode I made antivirus ignore scanning the file and installation completed successfully.

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I also had this issue... Thanks for the help!