I get a payload error. What can I do?

Products

• VMware InstallBuilder

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

While running the installer, I'm getting this error. What should I do?

Resolution

If you get the following error while trying to run the installer from the command line:

Installer payload initialization failed. This is likely due to an incomplete or corrupt downloaded file.

The file was probably not downloaded correctly and you will need to download it again. We have found this problem happens intermittently when using recent versions of the Mozilla browser on Debian unstable.