Hi, Am I doing something stupid? Trying to download mate for raspi 3. Since my RasPi doesn’t have an OS yet, I’m doing it on mac or windows. I just want to get an image file or iso that I can then put on a microSD etc. to load onto the pi, but can’t even get past the first step. I go to downloads …

Update: Peazip and xz both worked! The trick was to download the file again from the website every single time I tried to unzip it. But for example if I downloaded it and it failed with 7-zip, then unzipping the same file with peazip or xz didn’t work even though 7-zip didn’t seem to modify the fil…

Ubuntu MATE Community

Download and install: Can't unzip or extract .xz

Support & Help Requests Raspberry Pi

Goz 12 February 2018 13:25 9

That’s really helpful, thanks! I will definitely make use of that in the future.