Need Help Installing Miniconda

Bluefin
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Hi, I had miniconda installed in the past and it worked great. But today when I tried to install it I got a weird error saying md5sums of a tar archive don’t match and then failing to read a tarfile. I would be surprised if this was actually a problem with the conda installer, since the current latest version has been out since 30. April. What could be wrong with my system?

I am using the official install instructions from Installing Miniconda - Anaconda, specifically these commands:

mkdir -p ~/miniconda3
wget https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh -O ~/miniconda3/miniconda.sh
bash ~/miniconda3/miniconda.sh -b -u -p ~/miniconda3
rm ~/miniconda3/miniconda.sh

Here is the full error:

# bash ~/miniconda3/miniconda.sh -b -u -p ~/miniconda3
WARNING: md5sum mismatch of tar archive
expected: 275c69cad225c54d9a5904cb480a2b42
     got: 05672cd1df45af70e1c118dccbdc0308  -
Unpacking payload ...
entry_point.py:256: DeprecationWarning: Python 3.14 will, by default, filter extracted tar archives and reject files or modify their metadata. Use the filter argument to control this behavior.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "tarfile.py", line 550, in _read
OSError: Invalid data stream

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "entry_point.py", line 691, in <module>
  File "entry_point.py", line 681, in main
  File "entry_point.py", line 585, in _constructor_subcommand
  File "entry_point.py", line 255, in _constructor_extract_tarball
  File "tarfile.py", line 1869, in open
  File "conda_package_streaming/package_streaming.py", line 48, in __init__
  File "tarfile.py", line 1745, in __init__
  File "tarfile.py", line 2670, in next
  File "tarfile.py", line 2643, in next
  File "tarfile.py", line 1297, in fromtarfile
  File "tarfile.py", line 528, in read
  File "tarfile.py", line 552, in _read
tarfile.ReadError: invalid compressed data
[PYI-34427:ERROR] Failed to execute script 'entry_point' due to unhandled exception!

Update:

I have tried multiple other versioned miniconda installers and miniforge installers, all failing to unpack the payload. I am suspecting, that they did not properly test their installers compatibility with python 3.13 and something broke? Can anyone on bluefin latest confirm that the installer doesn’t work for them either?