wininet SHA256 mismatch and cabextract failure

[nickgirga]

When trying to use winetricks 20240105-next, installing wininet fails because it first warns me that the SHA256 does not match, but if I proceed, cabextract fails with exit status 1.

The terminal output looks like this:

Executing w_do_call wininet
/tmp/winetricks.Z12uG1kJ/no_win64_warnings exists, not issuing 64-bit prefix warning
Executing load_wininet 
grep: warning: stray \ before /
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warning: Checksum for /home/nick/.cache/winetricks/win7sp1/windows6.1-KB976932-X86.exe did not match, but --force was used, so ignoring and trying anyway.
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Executing cabextract -q -d /home/nick/Games/Animal Jam/pfx/dosdevices/c:/windows/temp -L -F x86_microsoft-windows-i..tocolimplementation_31bf3856ad364e35_8.0.7601.17514_none_1eaaa4a07717236e/wininet.dll /home/nick/.cache/winetricks/win7sp1/windows6.1-KB976932-X86.exe
/home/nick/.cache/winetricks/win7sp1/windows6.1-KB976932-X86.exe: no valid cabinets found
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warning: Note: command cabextract -q -d /home/nick/Games/Animal Jam/pfx/dosdevices/c:/windows/temp -L -F x86_microsoft-windows-i..tocolimplementation_31bf3856ad364e35_8.0.7601.17514_none_1eaaa4a07717236e/wininet.dll /home/nick/.cache/winetricks/win7sp1/windows6.1-KB976932-X86.exe returned status 1. Aborting.

I tried updating winetricks with --self-update, but this did not help.

For context, I'm running all of this on an x86_64-based Chromebook (running stock ChromeOS in developer mode), using the built-in Crostini environment (based on Debian Buster) to create an X forwarded podman container that runs Arch Linux (for more up-to-date packages) with wine, winetricks, and Lutris installed inside of it. I've run winetricks from within Lutris and standalone, but it did not make a difference in the errors or the outcomes.