how do I verify that the the checksum is correct?

Rick Stevens rstevens at vitalstream.com
Fri Feb 2 17:44:08 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 08:27 -0800, Alex Miua wrote:
> Hi there!
> 
> When I do : -
> 
> sha1sum <iso file>
> 
> this will output the checksum , do I have to verify by
> looking at the huge number that it is correct or is
> there a simple utilty which can compare the 2
> checksums  ?

Grab the SHA1SUM file from the repository you're downloading from, then
"cd" to the directory with the SHA1SUM file and the ISOs and run
"sha1sum -c SHA1SUM".

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