error when extract airbyte 2.0 zip file

[Johannes W. S. (johannes-ws)]

why i can't extract this zip file? is there a problem with my laptop?

[Airbyte Support Bot (airbyte-support-bot)]

Hi Johannes W. S. (@johannes-ws), thank you for reaching out!

The file you downloaded (airbyte-2.0.0.zip) is the source code archive from the GitHub release page. This is a very large archive of the entire Airbyte monorepo source code, and it is not what you need to install and run Airbyte. The Windows built-in zip extractor can have trouble with very large archives like this, which is likely causing the "invalid" error you are seeing.

To install Airbyte, you should use abctl (Airbyte's command-line tool). Here are the steps for Windows:

1. Install Docker Desktop — Download and install from docker.com.
2. Install abctl — Follow the Quickstart guide for Windows-specific installation instructions.
3. Run Airbyte — Once abctl is installed, run:

   abctl local install
   

   This will set up and start Airbyte locally on your machine.

If you specifically need the source code

If you do need the source code (for development purposes), try these alternatives:

• Clone the repository with Git instead of downloading the zip:

  git clone https://github.com/airbytehq/airbyte.git
  

• Re-download the zip — the file may have been corrupted during download. Try downloading it again.
• Use 7-Zip — the built-in Windows zip extractor has limitations with large files. 7-Zip handles large archives more reliably.

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