"Package file is invalid" - Google Music install error?

[nyssa]

So I got an invite to Google Music Beta, went to get the app, downloaded it just fine...but then when I went to install it, the install failed, saying "Installation Error: Package file is invalid."

I tried downloading it both from the Market, and from the internet (random direct link to the .apk). Both failed.

I have an Optimus V, rooted and running Bumblebee (2.2.1). Not sure why it failed - I searched other threads but nothing really addressed this specific problem. I did find a thread saying that rooted users SHOULD be able to use GMB, but nothing else.

Any help? I'd really like to be able to use this...

 

[nyssa]

So...I FINALLY managed to get the thing to install.

Then my cloud music wouldn't sync...so I uninstalled and tried to re-install to see if that would make the sync work...and now I can't get it to install again!! Same error!

Please help, somebody?!

 

[TnIan]

This may or may not be relevant to your situation, but here's what the deal was with mine. I have CyanogenMod 7.1 installed, which puts dalvik-cache in the /cache partition instead of /data.

When you install apps from the Market, it downloads the .apk to /cache/downloads and installs it from there. If you don't have enough room in /cache/dalvik-cache for the installer to put the necessary files there, the install fails with a "package file is invalid" error.

There's nothing wrong with the package file at all. It's purely a matter of not having enough space in your /cache partition.

(forgive me if you see this exact same post in multiple places - if I'd known weeks ago that it wasn't really an "invalid package file" issue, it would've saved me a ton of useless googling - just trying to spare others the same hassle)