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Add checksum to install script

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
42/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
typescript
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by locating the install script and reviewing issue #6767 for the corrupted-download scenario. Trace how downloads are cached and how installation failures are reported; done means corrupted downloads are detected before reuse and the output offers an appropriate cache-recovery path.

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Description

enhancement

If the download is corrupted, for example, the install will never work because that corrupted file is cached.

Maybe could also detect a failure to install and clear the cache. Or add a command to clear the cache and offer that as a potential solution in the output.

See https://github.com/coder/code-server/issues/6767

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