Hwo do I use MD5 sums to check file downloads?

jdruin · 11-26-2003, 04:27 PM

How do I use MD5 sums to check file downloads? I know I should use them but am not sure how.

jdruin · 11-26-2003, 04:51 PM

I was able to get this far reading docs:

diff md5sum glade-2.0.1.tar.gz cat glade-2.0.1.tar.gz.md5.tar

but this produces an error. What did I do wrong?

Blinker_Fluid · 11-26-2003, 05:08 PM

Usually I've seen md5 sums in a file you may have to extract the tar files first...

so basic instructions:
cat md5sums
ffcd786f04c76d193379eed4670ecfde Mandrake72-inst.iso
e258584f8ebcf1d5d16ad63a51eb9321 Mandrake72-ext.iso

To calculate the md5sums of the ISO images you downloaded.

md5sum -b *.iso
e258584f8ebcf1d5d16ad63a51eb9321 *Mandrake72-ext.iso
ffcd786f04c76d193379eed4670ecfde *Mandrake72-inst.iso

They should be the same...
Hope that helps

unSpawn · 12-01-2003, 11:49 AM

//moderator.note: not security related: mv to Linux - General