diff --git a/.changeset/silver-bananas-lie.md b/.changeset/silver-bananas-lie.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..84ea05cfbe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/silver-bananas-lie.md
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+---
+"@pnpm/core": patch
+"pnpm": patch
+---
+
+Don't retry installation if the integrity checksum of a package failed and no lockfile was present.
diff --git a/pkg-manager/core/src/install/index.ts b/pkg-manager/core/src/install/index.ts
index 17f858cd74..f6fc3efc86 100644
--- a/pkg-manager/core/src/install/index.ts
+++ b/pkg-manager/core/src/install/index.ts
@@ -385,7 +385,11 @@ export async function mutateModules (
         } catch (error: any) { // eslint-disable-line
           if (
             frozenLockfile ||
-            error.code !== 'ERR_PNPM_LOCKFILE_MISSING_DEPENDENCY' && !BROKEN_LOCKFILE_INTEGRITY_ERRORS.has(error.code)
+            (
+              error.code !== 'ERR_PNPM_LOCKFILE_MISSING_DEPENDENCY' &&
+              !BROKEN_LOCKFILE_INTEGRITY_ERRORS.has(error.code)
+            ) ||
+            (!ctx.existsWantedLockfile && !ctx.existsCurrentLockfile)
           ) throw error
           if (BROKEN_LOCKFILE_INTEGRITY_ERRORS.has(error.code)) {
             needsFullResolution = true
@@ -1234,7 +1238,10 @@ const installInContext: InstallFunction = async (projects, ctx, opts) => {
     }
     return await _installInContext(projects, ctx, opts)
   } catch (error: any) { // eslint-disable-line
-    if (!BROKEN_LOCKFILE_INTEGRITY_ERRORS.has(error.code)) throw error
+    if (
+      !BROKEN_LOCKFILE_INTEGRITY_ERRORS.has(error.code) ||
+      (!ctx.existsWantedLockfile && !ctx.existsCurrentLockfile)
+    ) throw error
     opts.needsFullResolution = true
     // Ideally, we would not update but currently there is no other way to redownload the integrity of the package
     opts.update = true